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Basket of Light, Sumpagno, Guatemala, 1989.

Photo by Flor Garduño

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“What we think of as our individuality - something given before culture, which we possess as a subject just by being born, after which we learn to use the tools of culture - is quite the reverse. This is part of what I meant by saying that identity is not settled in the past but always also oriented towards the future.”

— Stuart Hall, “Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life” (2007)

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“James Baldwin and his mother, Emma Berdis Baldwin, New York,” December 18, 1962 by Richard Avedon Hilton Als’s, “God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin,” at David Zwirner, is a moving tribute to Baldwin and an attempt to give shape to a man who, in Als’s eyes, is celebrated as a writer-prophet of racial injustice but too often overlooked as an artist and a human being.

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Well, it’s also you who removes information and the source. Official archives usually don’t allow people to share the photos without mentioning the source. Saying that it‘s useless to mention the archives or libraries is ignorant. People may want to look that stuff up - including me.

What kind of „work“ are you doing with that blog? Saving photos of others and sharing them? Not mentioning the source and getting mad about people who do the same with captions... Your blog is useless without giving actual MENA people and others interested the opportunity to look the stuff up

What are the sources for your images? I've tried searching for other appearances of them but come back with very few.

It’s the … magic !

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How about adding the name of the photographers to each post..... Actual MENA minorities and others could look up more into the photographs that have been taken of their people. Just saying... at least give credit to the photographers

What are the sources for your images? I've tried searching for other appearances of them but come back with very few.

It’s the … magic !

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hand-knit portraits of shirin neshat, eva hesse, claude cahun, & ana mendieta by kate just, 2015-2017

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Abbas Kiarostami, from “A Wolf Lying in Wait; Poems,” published c. 2015

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Studio Shehrazade, Saida, Lebanon, 1950s. Hashem el Madani 2007

© Akram Zaatari, courtesy Hashem el Madani and Arab Image Foundation, Beirut

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Studio Shehrazade, Saida, Lebanon, early 1970s. Hashem el Madani 2007.

© Akram Zaatari, courtesy of Hashem el Madani and Arab Image Foundation, Beirut

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AKRAM ZAATARI Saida, Lebanon

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Salaam Cinema, Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Iran, 1995) 

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Left: martyr Fadi Hassan Abu Salah; A disabled Palestinian man killed by Israeli sniper fire during mass protests in Gaza on Monday.

Right: Sculpture by Hisham Alshdaifat, in memory of Fadi Abu Salah.

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They took my mind

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ANNI ALBERS

THICKLY SETTLED, cotton and jute, 1957 (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Director’s Purchase Fund ©2008 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)

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@qozelqort read, understand and learn

The article „Ezdiki – the language of the Ezidis?“ by Yilmaz Algin I have translated for EP is finally online.

Repeatedly, the term “Ezdiki” is the subject of countless discussions. But is there really something like an “Ezidi language”?