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The Visual Language of the Greek Artist Ioannis Kaiserlis

Ioannis Kaiserlis deeply believes in the birth of ideas from the ruins, from the gloomy, from where apparently there is no light, movement, life. The ecological consciousness of the artist Ioannis Kaiserlis is occupied by various extensions, with the primary one being the religious one. Kaiserlis, on the one hand, is sad and mourns for the

How Arabic Translations of Ancient Greek Texts Started a New Scientific Revolution

In the eighth-century CE the Abbasids undertook to collect the wisdom of the world in their new capital at Baghdad In the eighth-century CE the Abbasids undertook to collect the wisdom of the world in their new capital at Baghdad. This project started with the second Abbasid caliph, al-Mansur (“the Conqueror,” r. 754–74),

Mohamed Baraka in (The Lady's Tavern): Is it True that Love is Overwhelming?

I almost claim that the art of autobiography in Arabic literature has been greatly wronged by its writers, who have taken it out of the framework of history, documentation, and written confession, into the space of beautifying the writing selves, improving faded images, and even inventing fake histories that rely on ignorance of the

Rock Carvings in Azad Kashmir’s Chitter Pari

Alongside cup-marks, the Chitter Pari rock art site features anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and geometric motifs In 2008, I visited Chitter Pari for the first time as I was travelling to Mirpur City. A friend had told me about the rock carvings in Chitter Pari village while I was doing research on the cultural landscape in Punjab’s

Bitter Orange by the Lebanese writer Basma ElKhatib

We follow the swing that the narrator took in “Bitter Orange” by the Lebanese writer Basma ElKhatib (Dar Al-Adab) as a deceptive, rotating place from which she appears to tell, between a backward jolt that overlooks a past in which the most painful thing is, and the most beautiful thing in it is almost absent, and a forward jolt