#Baladi

[palestiniansilk]

Al Khalil - Falasteen on 09 March ´24

In the quiet streets, beneath a sun-baked sky, Old men walk with wisdom wrapped in threads of time. Their kuffiyehs, woven with stories of the past, Dance with every step, a silent testament.

Black and white, or red and white, they wear with grace, A fabric of heritage, etched upon their face. Each fold, a chapter; each knot, a silent vow, Echoes of resilience in their steady brow.

In the embrace of the kuffiyeh, history's embrace, They carry the weight of tradition, with dignified pace.

[sandwichtribunal]

Egyptian Hawawshi

"The pita bread was slit open and filled with a thin layer of a meat mixture that stayed pleasingly moist after baking, mildly flavored with onion and garlic, with pickles on the side to act as palate cleansers between bites." Egyptian Hawawshi

Hawawshi, an Egyptian street food, is a flatbread stuffed with a seasoned mixture of minced beef and/or lamb and baked. Many articles online claim that they were invented in Cairo in the early 1970s by an Egyptian butcher either named Mohamed al-Hawawshi or Ahmed el-Hawawsh. However, Travel Food Atlas points out that hawash may also be a word for “to stuff” in Egyptian Arabic. I have been unable…

[mohamedaboelgheit]

"كلما تعرفت أكثر على الناس، زاد حبي لكلبي." – مارك توين

"The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog." – Mark Twain

[jungfrau-maria]

Egyiptom te csoda

[loremori]

Martin Freeman (227/366)

📺| Breeders (2020-2023) Creator Chris Addison | Simon Blackwell | Martin Freeman

Martin Freeman, Daisy Haggard, Patrick Baladi in S02.

[irhabiya]

all the mental illnesses inshallah alhamdulillah guy u will always be famous

[k-wame]

'The King Came Calling' RIPPER STREET ∙ S1.E3 ∙ writ. Declan Croghan & Richard Warlow

[songsofbloodandwater]

"One day [my grandmother] called me. I came and saw a blackboard at her side. «Come, sit next to me. I’d like to teach you an ancient craft. Take this chalk in your hand.».  She inserted it between my thumb and index finger and went on. «Now draw a dot and concentrate all your energy into this one dot. It is the beginning and the end, the navel of the world.» The following day, she called me again. «Fawzia, come!» She sat at her usual place with the board next to her. «Now draw the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, the alif, a vertical line; start from the top, keep your hand light and put all your inner strength into the downward movement. Let the line become as long as three dots lying above each other.» Again, I took the chalk between thumb and fore finger, and I made an alif (ا). She explained that the alif is the first expression of the dot. It is unique among all the letters of the alphabet and contained in all of them. Trace it with reverence, she told me, for the alif is the dot’s longing to show itself. It is through the dot’s longing to grow beyond itself that the alif is born. Regardless of their multiple, outer shapes, all letters are the alif in their essence. (...) I felt my body straighten into a living alif. My arms, hands, back, legs, and feet all turned into alif. Another day came when my grandmother called me. (...) «Anchor your feet to the earth and balance your weight on both legs. Now shift your pelvis to the right and then to the left, as if you were drawing a shell. Every time you reach the furthest outward point, stop, balance back to your middle and then to the other side. Now come, make the same movement with the chalk on the board (ٮ): Does this shape remind you of something?» «It’s the second letter of the alphabet, grandmother, but the dot underneath it is missing.» «The dot is the beginning,» she explained. «The dot begets all the other letters. The dot is below and the alif in between (ب). Together, they form the word (father), one of the names of the Divine. When you whirl or when you circle your pelvis, you are drawing the dot, the origins. From this shape all other movements are born – they all stem from this dot, from the navel in your belly.»

— Grandmother’s secrets: the ancient rituals and healing power of

belly dancing (2012) by Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi

[bitegore]

made roast cantaloupe seeds today and oh my god they are so good

[angelic37]

10 years since... RIPPER STREET "The King Came Calling" Written by Declan Croghan and Richard Warlow. Directed by Andy Wilson. Original air date: 13 January 2013 (insp.)

[weclassybouquetfun]

SIX DEGREES (or less) OF KEVIN BACON - the James Lance edition.

Kevin starred in the Fox series THE FOLLOWING alongside James Purefoy. Purefoy was in HBO's ROME with Kevin McKidd. McKidd was in the film THE ACID HOUSE with fellow Scot Michelle Gomez

Gomez starred in THE BOOK GROUP with James Lance.

Looking like a tart.

Gomez also co-produced and had a small role in SUBTERRAIN which was executive produced by her husband Jack Davenport.

More strings that bind us them.

Davenport was one of the stars of COUPLING and who else starred in that? Richard Mylan,

who had the impossible task of replacing Richard Coyle (who would much later go on to work with Michelle Gomez in THE CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA).

Mylan appeared in the film CITY RATS with James Lance as the guy who actually succeeds in Operation Get Chris (Lance's character) Laid.

Beyond being costars, they are friends. Richard attended Lance and Kate Quilton's wedding

and James was best man at Richard's.

Supporting Richard's theatre program.

And while Richard cheers on James' in TED LASSO

being Welsh and a Wrexham supporter he has another football show he's a fan of.

Richard was a producer of James' short film THE LEAD and James was the lead of Richard's short film THE MAC GUY.

In the short James places a call to his frequent costar Patrick Baladi.

Total aside but S1 hair > S2 hair.

[morethansalad]

Salata Baladi / Egyptian Cucumber & Tomato Salad (Raw Vegan)

[mariamlovesyou]

🎧 omg. also hiiii. twirling my hair

oh dancing queen easily *bats my lashes as im saying this* u probably get that a lot sorry if so but there's something very abbaesque about you may i have this dance 💃

[saraia]

Photo: Raj Fylling

[hysteriamodes]

Belly dance is significantly harder if you don't have curves and a belly. You have to focus more on the undulations and layering. The scary part being that if you're not careful with some undulations, you can faint.

I say this as an average sized woman who has done belly dance. I performed on stage at a cabaret club, with my class even.

Belly dance comes from Raqs Baladi and it's a traditional dance where both men and women participate, regardless of figure and usually not in this attire. It has roots in fertility and is usually done at weddings, too.

If anyone who isn't overweight should take a class and see that it ain't easy if you're thinner. This dance is perfect for women and men with curves and it is also not an easy dance. My teacher told me ballet was easier than some forms of belly dance.

Look at Sadie Marquardt, she's got her undulations mastered that it looks like she's floating.

Her undulations in her stomach takes a lot of core muscle (because goddamn, belly dance really gives you strong stomach muscles) and this is why I mean a skinnier woman will faint.