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The most powerful thing you can do right now is to be patient with yourself while things are unfolding for you. Everything is manifesting!

We look forward to sharing the Treasures of South Asian Art in the University of Edinburgh with the audience tomorrow in the Centre for Research Collection, Main Library, from 5 to 6.30pm 🐘 claire walsh

A sea of Blue Himalayan Poppies

Takht-e Murassa/Takht-e Taoos/Peacock Throne

Chu tareekhash zabaan purseed az dil
Ba guft aurang Shahenshah-e Adil
When the tongue sought its date from the heart
It said ‘The throne of the just emperor’.

The words ‘the throne of the just emperor’ were the chronogram taken…

🎨Jean Mannheim 🎀

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A Santa Cruz surf photographer caught this moment between his dog and a sea lion, and it’s magical ✨🖤

What happened, has happened. Free your mind from it. Let it all go. You deserve to be at peace.

In African schools, Africans are not being taught about the Berlin conference and the effect of Colonialism in Africa.

Leopold II once said “I do not want to miss a chance of getting a slice of this magnificent African cake”

After Leopold acquired Congo as a private property…

Remembering immortal #Irrfan on his 4th death anniversary (29/04/20).

What are your favourite Irrfan roles?

The Marinids Madrasa
Among the alleys of the old medina of Salé, lies 9 centuries of knowlege.
The Marinids Madrasa is .. Why Morocco

بين أزقة المدينة العتيقة بسلا، توجد 9 قرون من العلم.
المدرسة المرينية، ها علاش المغرب
MJCC وزارة الشباب والثقافة والتواصل

The world is nothing but variety and dissimilarity. Montaigne (1533-1592)
ما العالم الا تنوع واختلاف ـ الكاتب الفرنسي مونتين
Le monde n'est que variété et dissemblance.
#HassanMassoudy #arabiccalligraphy #calligraphie
#islamiccalligraphy #calligraphie arabe #calligraphy

Another Qur'anic leaf from Morocco has just been withdrawn from Plakas auction. It belongs to an 8th-9th CE manuscript formerly in Meknes, Abd al-Rahman b. Zaydan's collection. Transferred to the Royal Library in Rabat, the copy clearly underwent many thefts in the last 3 decades

i was reading them the emails that the administration is sending us every 10 minutes now

John Wombwell smoking a Huqqa, #Lucknow 1785 in colln of Prince & Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan. Some references mention him being #EIC Assay Master in Lucknow #Art #History #WhiteMughals William Dalrymple Punjabi Rooh Sharad Mohan شرد ਸ਼ਰਦ शरद শরদ Nilosree نیلوسری নীলশ্রী she|her ✒️💭🫖 ☕️ 🍰🍉 Amit Guha Swati Vashishtha

Sophy Roberts
El Congo