#the wolf of baghdad

[totallyhussein-blog]

Join The Wolf of Baghdad on a journey into Iraqi-Jewish history

In the 1940’s, a third of Baghdad’s population was Jewish. Within a decade nearly all of Iraq’s 150,000 Jews had fled. The Wolf of Baghdad is a graphic memoir of a lost homeland and a wordless narrative for a home never visited, with its own original soundtrack of Judeo-Arabic and Iraqi music recorded by the ground-breaking band 3yin.

The Wolf of Baghdad is a unique audio-visual journey through a Jewish family’s memories of their lost Iraqi homeland and speaks to audiences about the little-known story of Iraqi Jews and the NAZI inspired pogrom known as The Farhud. This music based and visual narrative is illuminated by the words and portraits of Carol Isaacs own family, whose stories provide a fascinating insight into the experiences of Baghdadi Jews.

The Wolf of Baghdad film is based on Carol Isaacs book of the same title, which was published by Myriad Editions. The Wolf of Baghdad was included in the Guardian's best graphic novels of 2020. Sandi Toksvig also described it as a book "where you actually fall inside the story. It's wonderful.' Pictured is Carol signing copies at the Manchester Jewish Museum.

The Wolf of Baghdad film had its world premiere in New York in 2020 and it's first screening in Manchester, England, on the 4th Nov 2021. Visitors at the Manchester Jewish Museum were transported from Carol Isaacs current home in London, to her ancestral home in the old Jewish quarter of Baghdad. Audiences encountered ghost-like inhabitants and got to explore Baghdad through their memories.

The Manchester Jewish Museum provided the ideal setting for The Wolf of Baghdad film, especially with the former synagogue having such strong ties with Manchester's Iraqi community. Opening its doors in 1874, as the first Sephardi synagogue in Manchester, Iraqi's who worshipped there included the family of the famous World War One poet Siegfried Sassoon, who came to Britain from Basra in 1858.

The Wolf of Baghdad book and film are available to buy from the Manchester Jewish Museum, 190 Cheetham Hill Rd, Cheetham Hill, Manchester M8 8LW. Both can be purchased online and you can also rent The Wolf of Baghdad film, and have it streamed to your home through Carol Isaacs TSM Cartoons website.

Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on 27th January. You can learn more about the Holocaust at the Auschwitz Museum. You can also develop your understanding of The Farhud at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and learn more about the Jewish experience in North Africa at Yad Vashem. 

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Race Headcannons 🥀🌼

Requested: Nu uh I just felt like it

CW: Race, Rook Slander, Ortho spoiler Idia's part.

Characters: NRC students

These are my Race Headcannons for the NRC men. Some of these I just went by feeling a lot of these I did research about the movie setting although with the fishes + beast men I went by geography.

Some of these I'm unsure of (Heavy on Sebek) If anything is incorrect or you want to share your thoughts go ahead I'm always open to corrections and hearing others. (PROOFREAD FOR ONCE)

(Updated Epel on 5.12.24)

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Heartslabyul

Riddle (British)

I don't really have an explanation for this one other than the Red Queen in Tim Burton's version she was British and had a big goofy forehead (I have not seen the animated one help)

Trey (German)

Would you believe me if I told you I whipped out a map closed my eyes and threw a dart and it landed on Germany??

For this one I went with somewhere in Europe and I picked Germany because it just made sense to me I was gonna say Polish, but his Green hair was telling me German.

Cater (Scottish)

It's his ginger hair tbh.

Ace (Japanese)

A lot of people headcannon him as Filipino, but me personally I wanted to be quirky and different /j

This one doesn't really have any evidence I just went by feeling. I also headcannon it that he would love Jojo and Junji Ito.

Deuce (Mexican)

As a fellow Mexican I KNOW ONE OF US WHEN I SEE ONE OF US. He is Mexican and I WILL DIE ON THAT HILL.

Savanaclaw

Leona (Kenya)

I actually googled it and Lion King takes place in Kenya which is a country in the eastern part of Africa. For obvious reasons since he is based off Scar it made sense to make him Kenyan.

Ruggie (Multiracial)

I may get a lot of heat for this one, but this man got blonde ass hair and blue eyes, HOWEVER for the geography of spotted Hyena's I feel he is light skinned. He's got some Kenya in him but he also got some white genes. Geography wise I believe he is also part Arab since there are Arab countries in Africa. So therefore I believe he is white, black, and Arab.

Jack (Bircial)

Another one I may get a lot of heat for.

From what I remember Jack is from the same country as Vil? So, I believe Jack is part black, but also part European. It also isn't explicitly stated what movie he is from we just know he is a wolf.

Pop off Jacob Black (not sorry)

Octavinelle

Azul (Cuban) + The Twins (Filipino)

I googled Coral Sea locations and I came to these conclusions.

There are different Coral reefs going from Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Maldives. With the Twins I thought how funny would it be to make them Australian, but Filipino just kind of felt right like a gut feeling. The Carribean sea also has coral reefs so I made Azul Cuban. I was going to make him Venezuelan however I ended up going with Cuban, but I feel like both fit him in a way.

Scarabia

Jamil + Kalim (Arab)

I don't really think this one needs an explanation Aladdin quite literally takes place Agrabah which was based off of Baghdad, Iraq (source: Google)

HOWEVER

There is an article that says the Architecture is based on the Taj Mahal which is Indian.

There is also a mention of Allah in the animated version BUT because I don't fully understand religion in general (And also Disney back then was kind of racist) I don't want to use religion as a justification to where specifically they are from. So I will simply just say they are Arab.

Pomefiore

Vil (German)

Snow white was based in Germany. (I have nothing more to say :Skull:)

Rook (French)

Self explanatory

Epel (Sami)

The Sami People are people who are indigenous to Sapmi which is in Northern Europe. (Todays Russia, Sweden, Finland, and Norway).

From doing a bit of research the Sami people seem to be dying out and their language too. (If you want to feel free to Google the Sami people there's a lot to learn about them and it's really interesting. There was basically a bunch of policies put in place to kill them and mistreat them it's really sad)

So in short Epel is Sami Indigenous (If I'm correct he's the first Indigenous character we got so far which is nice representation) (I also hope my research was correct please correct me if not)

Ignihyde

Idia (Greek)

Based on where Hercules takes place and because Hades is quite literally Greek Mythology he is Greek.

Ortho is just a robot, but when he didn't drop dead he was Greek.

Diasmonia

Malleus (German/French)

I am not really getting a clear answer as to where Sleeping Beauty takes place so I made him a French German. He slayed tbh

Lilia (Romanian)

Dracula's castle is in Romania that is the only explanation you are getting

Silver (French/German)

I am being told he is based off Sleeping Beauty so I am making him the same race as Waka Sama.

Sebek (Biracial)

When I first was thinking of a race for him I was thinking Slavic kind of fits him (atleast to me) or possibly Asian. However I had a really hard time guessing so I made him SlavicAsian. Maybe possibly Slovakia and Vietnam?

If you enjoyed Likes and Reblogs are very much welcome. If you want to request something go ahead just read my rules first. <3

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Omega Radio for December 25, 2024; #393.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: "Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow"

Eels: "Christmas, Why You Gotta' Do Me Like This?"

Ben Folds: "The Christmas Song"

Low: "Just Like Christmas"

Sharon Van Etten: "Silent Night"

Future Islands: "Last Christmas"

Haim: "Hallelujah"

Kurt Vile: "Must Be Santa"

Cat Power: "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"

Sufjan Stevens: "O Come O Come Emmanuel"

Wolf Alice: "Santa Baby"

Yoko Ono & Flaming Lips: "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"

Fall, The: "Hark The Herald Angel Sing"

Queen: "Thank God It's Christmas"

Greedies: "A Merry Jingle"

They Might Be Giants: "Santa's Beard"

Pearl Jam: "Don't Believe In Christmas"

Smashing Pumpkins: "Christmas Time"

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: "Christmas All Over Again"

Black Lips: "Christmas In Baghdad"

Shonen Knife: "We Wish You A Merry Christmas"

Mary J. Blige: "Have Yourself A Merry Christmas"

Headhunters, The: "Kwanzaa"

Bjork: "Frosti"

Girl In Red: "Two Queens In A King-Sized Bed"

Mazzy Star: "Flowers In December"

Kate Bush: "Snowflake"

Tori Amos: "Reindeer King" / "Winter"

Bonus Holiday special (4th); our most 'gold' and 'platinum' broadcast.

[sweet-caress-of-twilight]

Going off of one of my previous reblogs, i attempted to make a list of where in the world every Disney Animated Canon movie takes place

Antarctica:

Pablo the Cold-Blooded Penguin (The Three Caballeros) (Pablo starts out living in the South Pole and then he goes to Chile, Peru, and Ecuador)

Africa

The Lion King

Tarzan

Asia

Aladdin is set in a mishmash of Middle Eastern countries. It was supposed to be in Iraq, but because of the Persian Gulf War, Disney said no, so it takes place in the fictional country of Agrabah, which is inspired by Baghdad in Iraq.

Raya and the Last Dragon is set in a mishmash of Southeast Asian countries, but takes the most inspiration from Vietnam

China: Mulan

India: The Jungle Book

Europe

England: The Wind in the Willows (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad), Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, 101 Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, Robin Hood, Winnie the Pooh, The Great Mouse Detective

France: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Aristocats, Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Germany: Snow White, Tangled

Greece: The Pastoral Symphony (Fantasia), Hercules

Italy: Pinocchio

Norway: Frozen (Arendelle is heavily inspired by Norway)

Russia: Peter and the Wolf (Make Mine Music)

Spain: Wish (Rosas is inspired by Spain and located off the Iberian Peninsula)

Turkey: Pomp and Circumstance (Fantasia 2000) is about Noah's Ark, and many people believe that the ark landed at Mount Ararat in present-day Turkey

Ukraine: Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria (Fantasia) (the real Bald Mountain is Mount Triglaf, near Kyiv in Ukraine)

Wales: The Black Cauldron

North America

Mexico:

Las Posadas

Mexico: Pátzcuaro, Veracruz and Acapulco

You Belong to My Heart/Donald's Surreal Reverie (all from The Three Caballeros)

United States:

Different towns in Massachusetts and California have claimed to be the Mudville that Casey at the Bat (Make Mine Music) takes place in, but the author of the original poem said it has no basis in fact.

The Legend of Johnny Appleseed (Melody Time) - the real Johnny Appleseed (real name John Chapman) planted apple trees in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Ontario, and West Virginia

Lady and the Tramp could take place somewhere in New England

The Fox and the Hound looks like it takes place in Appalachia, so maybe Pennsylvania or Virginia

Home on the Range is somewhere in the Old West

Bolt takes place across America: starts out in California, the title character ends up in New York, visits Ohio, and is back to California by the end

Alaska: Brother Bear

California: Wreck it Ralph (Ralph Breaks the Internet reveals that Litwak's Arcade is in California), Big Hero 6

Florida: Dumbo

Hawaii: Lilo and Stitch

Louisiana: Blue Bayou (Make Mine Music), most of The Rescuers, The Princess and the Frog

Maine: Bambi (the forest was based on Maine and the animators traveled to Maine for reference)

New York: Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet, The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met (Make Mine Music) (the Metropolitan Opera is in NYC), Little Toot (Melody Time), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad) (the real Sleepy Hollow is in New York), The Rescuers (the Rescue Aid Society headquarters is in NYC), Oliver and Company, Rhapsody in Blue (Fantasia 2000)

Texas: Pecos Bill (Melody Time)

Virginia: Pocahontas

Washington, DC: Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Milo works at the Smithsonian

Oceania

The Rescuers Down Under: Australia

Moana: Polynesia

Pangaea

The Rite of Spring (Fantasia)

Dinosaur

South America

Argentina: Pedro, El Gaucho Goofy (Saludos Amigos)

Bolivia: Lake Titicaca (Saludos Amigos)

Brazil: Aquarela do Brasil (Saludos Amigos), Baia (The Three Caballeros), Blame It on the Samba (Melody Time),

Chile: Pedro (Saludos Amigos) (The title character delivers the mail in the Andes, between Santiago, Chile, and Mendoza, Argentina), Pablo the Cold-Blooded Penguin (The Three Caballeros)

Colombia: Encanto

Ecuador: Pablo the Cold-Blooded Penguin (The Three Caballeros) (Pablo goes to the Galapagos Islands, which is an archipelago in Ecuador)

Peru: Lake Titicaca (Saludos Amigos) (the lake is at the border between Peru and Bolivia), Pablo the Cold-Blooded Penguin (The Three Caballeros), The Emperor's New Groove

Uruguay: The Flying Gauchito (The Three Caballeros)

Unknown/does not take place in our world

Any of the package film segments not mentioned here

The Little Mermaid seems like it takes place in the Mediterranean Sea, but it could also take place in the Caribbean, which would explain Sebastian's accent

Fantasia 2000: "Pines of Rome" is set in the Arctic, so it could be anywhere from Canada to Alaska to Finland to Russia

Most of Atlantis: the Lost Empire, since the city of Atlantis is completely made up

Treasure Planet

Chicken Little

Meet the Robinsons

Zootopia

Strange World

[chiefdirector]

Left Behind | G Callen | NCIS: Los Angeles

No.19: Left behind

Callen didn’t like to think he had a soulmate.

The idea that he was bonded to someone for life unnerved him. The fact that someone could hold such an influence on his life, and vice versa, never did sit right. He was a lone wolf by nature, even when he worked within a team dynamic.

The mark above his heart taunted him for years, challenging his very nature. Eventually, he tried to convince himself that he didn’t have a soulmate, but then he met her.

Special Agent (Y/N) (L/N). Expert in Black Ops and matters of extreme prejudice. She had been working on some assignment out of Baghdad before she had been assigned to the office in Los Angeles. It had taken a few days before her and Callen had crossed paths, but the burning above his heart revealed all he needed to know about her.

For the first time, Callen fell in love, and he fell hard. Seemingly everything had clicked in his life. The days were brighter and the evenings brought comfort. His restless nights all but ceased. She had brought him the clarity he had longed after.

It all fell apart again the day she died.

It was his fault, or at least that is what he had told himself. He was meant to be on her six. He was until he heard a noise in the corner of the room. That split second distraction allowed time for their suspect to launch four bullets into her. Three were caught in her bullet proof vest. The last of the four landed in the back of her neck. She died almost instantly.

Nobody on his team had said anything when he returned to the office alone but he could feel their eyes on him. Hetty had demanded he take some time off, to heal and grieve. He knew that the team would apprehend her murderer, he knew that he had to step back.

The house was quiet when he returned home. Callen was had been used to having a quiet home. He had had one for most of his life. But now he would have to familiarise himself with it once again; he would have to get used to being the one who survived, the one left behind.

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[nyaa]

got time slipped back to medieval europe w/ the boys. they out here tryna craft baghdad batteries. I just be making bank doing the coin thing from spice & wolf season 1

[teecupangel]

It was just announced that AC Mirage is releasing in October. Are you excited? (I managed to get the collectors edition!)

Congrats! I pre-ordered the Collector's Edition as well <3

Sidebar: the normal version is currently 49.99 USD in PSN which gives us an idea of how long (and how big) this game would be. It's not surprising as Mirage did start off as a DLC of Valhalla so this will definitely not be as long as the recent AC games. I hope that means this would have a tighter more focused storyline and doesn't mean the narrative suffers because it's shorter. Also, as it's available for previous generations, it would probably have the same graphic options as Valhalla.

Alright, this can be a bit of a rant because, well, it's me XD

I read it's using Origin's parkour system but they've improved on it which sounds nice 'cause it's like the love-child of old and current AC games' parkour system.

The scene where Basim used that lamp-looking thing to quickly turn? Reminded me a lot of the old AC games, that's for sure. And that throwing knife kill? Definitely gave me AC1 flashbacks XD

Special assassinations are back and, not gonna lie, absolutely excited for that. That was my favorite part of the stealth mechanics of Unity, Syndicate and Valhalla's Siege of Paris DLC. I'm hoping it's quite diverse like those games and that scene where Basim uses a rope to hang his target feels like one of the special assassinations.

Also, also, also...

Chain Assassinations look so cool and if this is an unlockable skill, I know where my early skill points are going XD

As for open combat, I'm a sucker for dual wielders especially if it's the more traditional long blade/short blade combo and I love fighting styles that have a lot of twirling around so this entire sequence?

Yeeeessss, thank you. Twirl for me, dorky wolf dad. Twirl. I demand more twirling.

Btw, his Mirage fighting style is a bit different from his AC Valhalla style and I wonder if we'll know why he changed his fighting style in Mirage? (I'm betting it's connected to his Loki memories)

Baghdad looks awesome btw and, not gonna lie, I am having AC1, Revelations and Origins flashbacks.

Also, we saw another character in this trailer that is actually mentioned in AC Valhalla.

(So we know he's not gonna die which is nice XD)

Overall: I am cautiously optimistic and I hope Ubisoft doesn't fuck this up. I really hope Mirage is a success so the higher-ups in Ubisoft see that stealth-heavy AC games are worth developing.

Also, I read the Prince of Persia remake is being handled by Ubisoft Montreal (who is also handling Hexe) who handled Mirage so this might be a good indication of the kind of game the Prince of Persia remake could be.

Also, because it's me.

Hello, Hidden Blade Kink, my old-ish friend.

[handsofaman]

Thought Bombs

When the engineers of Acheron finally dissected the heart of the Yosemite anomaly and created the resultant Pillars, they found a strange a result. Incidents proved that machines the size of the universe were more than capable of influencing it through sheer thought alone, folding space with wandering tangents and manifesting whole fleets for a laugh. After the dark ages began and man’s idols were forced to turn the sword against their kin, the thought bomb was discovered.

Guernica, a category-3 Pillar, was the centerpiece of the Wolf Republic fleet and the leader of its conduit. The Ascendancy’s fleet, while being diminutive in size, beat Guernica at every turn through the sheer force of their Pillar. Baghdad was a category-1 in every sense of the word, capable of predicting battles centuries before the ships were designed.

Among the 11 system along the contested border, Poi’no, Haven, and Kemmerson’s Keep were the only ones with sizable populations. Poi’no the most, given its importance in computational research. Kemmerson’s Keep had seen the brunt of the fighting, with its fortress star being assailed constantly by drones, humans, and organoids alike. Guernica had dispatched a force, composed mostly of humans and bondsmen, so immense they were able to man 68% of the battle stations on KK-prime, but Baghdad had already withdrawn its forces and starved the force of material reinforcements. Within a few years, the bulk of the legion was forced to return or had starved.

And then, during a minor skirmish in the Poi’no system, Baghdad was confronted with something it hadn’t predicted. The orbital radius of its 2nd exoplanets was 68 miles larger than it could have been, something utterly impossible given everything the machine understood. For fourteen months the Ascendancy’s Fleet of the Golden Circle was immobile, titanic ships frozen in the void as their multi kilometer long hulls basked in the red star’s glow. On the fourteenth month, Baghdad annihilated itself and the entirety of its fleet alongside Poi’no-2. Guernica had engineered an unsolvable riddle by utilizing the entirety of its processing power to transport a version of itself back in time to alter the formation of the planets core. The very same wreckage the colonists discovered and deconstructed to create Guernica in the first place.

[uneasylisteningradio]

The Kids Just Don't Understand August 11, 2024

Image: Desborde

listen to the show

Carole King - Pleasant Valley Sunday Neutrals - That's Him On the Daft Stuff Again

DJ speaks over TV Dust - U Say II

Naked Roommate - Bus Narkan - Per Mano Tua Class - Just a Worm Hek​á​tē - Φ​ώ​ν​α​ξ​ε

Industry - Human Realm Abi Ooze - of Power SKAMFL​Ä​CK - 20% Av Svenskarna Är Svin Psychic Death - Brutal Truth Mommy Boys - Plumper Haufen Sodom & Sagesse - Acidaction

CAVE SEX - Survival / Affliction Hassan Ideddir - Atfalouna Abyecta - Hoy no Hay Ma​ñ​ana

Kosmetika - Mirror Citric Dummies - Trapped in a Parking Garage Subdued - Abbatoir Alhambrada - Primer Mundo Beth Anderson - I Can't Stand It Added Dimensions - Compartmentalize Xmal Deutschland - Zu Jung Zu Alt

Assistert Sjølmord - Røndgtenblikk GEFYR - Nazismens Plagiat Desenterradas - Parálisis del Sueño Melenas - Bang (Peanut Butter Wolf remix) Kalashnikov Collective - Spero Venga La Guerra / Combatti / Ti Obbligano Ad Obbedire CLAMM - Define Free

Weak Signal - Wannabe KIÉGETT FÖLD - SZŐNYEGBOMBÁZÁST BUDAPESTNEK Sihir - Kuasa American Muscle - I Don't Want to Do Anything Klavo - Berlin Blitz

Limbo District - Daydreaming The Carp - Fairview Park Skins Nightshift - Y. T. Tutorial 22 Beaches - Somebody Got It Wrong Ortrotasce - Part From Myself

Domesticatrix - Downer Festa del Perdono - Il primo freddo Artificial Go - Pay Phone Dogs - Maureen Guiding Light - Magpie Desborde - El Grupo del Momento Madalitso Band - Lenisa

Born Against - Riding With Mary Poison Idea - Star of Baghdad Hiatus - Let Me Dead Cimitero - Cucchiaio di Ferro

Chumbawamba - The Good Ship Lifestyle

[retrourbanism]

Europe

Hercynia:

Iberia:

Seats of Power: Toledo and the Kingdom of Castille, Abode of Three Faiths

Seats of Power: Santiago de Compostela and the Kingdom of Galicia, Jerusalem of Iberia

Seats of Power: Pamplona, Trifecta of Strife, and Unity

Seats of Power: Oviedo, Raging Embers of Christendom

Nordica:

Italy:

Seats of Power: Venice and the Italian City States, Serenity afloat in Opulence

Balkons:

Seats of Power: Pliska and the First Bulgarian Empire, Contendor of Byzantium

Seats of Power: Preslav and the First Bulgarian Empire, Cradle of Orthodox Slavdom

Seats of Power: Turnovo and Second Bulgarian Empire, The Third Rome

Seats of Power: Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire, Crown of the Ecumene

Visegrad:

Seats of Power: Krakow and the Kingdom of Poland, Majesty Ascent in the Plains

Seats of Power: Esztergom and the Kingdom of Hungary, Equestrian Valor imbued with Catholic Glory

Sarmatia:

Seats of Power: Kernave and the Grand Dutchy of Lithuania, Pagan Might of the Balts

Seats of Power: Vilnius and the Grand Dutchy of Lithuania, Mountain of the Iron Wolf

Caucuses:

Seats of Power: Ani and Bagratid Armenia, Where the Angels Nest

Celtic Isles:

Seats of Power: Scone and Medieval Scotland, Throne of Ascension and Sovereignty

Africa

Sahel:

Seats of Power: Timbuktu and the Mali Empire, Mother of Knowledge, Faith, and Wealth

Nile:

Seats of Power: Soba and the Kingdom of Alodia, Verdant Grail of Treasures

Seats of Power: Cairo and the Fatimid Caliphate, Babylon on the Nile

Maghreb:

Seats of Power: Kairouan and Medival North Africa, Mecca of the Magrehb

Guinea:

Seats of Power: Ile Ife and the Medival Yoruba State, Origin of Mankind and All Creation

Swahili Coast:

Seats of Power: Kilwa and the Swahili City States, Merchant Crown of the Coast

Seats of Power: Mogadishu and the Swahili city States, White Pearl of the Indian Ocean

Horn of Africa:

Lake Complex:

South African Plateau:

West Asia:

Arabian Peninsula:

Seats of Power: Medina and the Rashidun Caliphate, Bastion of the Holy Prophet

Levant:

Anatolia:

Iranian Plateau:

Mesopotamia:

Seats of Power: Baghdad and the Abbasid Caliphate, Beating Heart of the Ummah

South Asia:

Indus River Valley:

Ganges River Valley:

Deccan Plateau:

Ghat Coast:

Southeast Asia:

Coastal Lowlands:

Seats of Power: Thang Long and the Dai Viet, Where the Dragon Rises

Seats of Power: Angkor Wat and the Khmer Empire, The Divine Temple City

Shan Plateau:

East Asia:

Tibetan Plateau:

Seats of Power: Lhasa and the Tibetan Empire, Heart of the Supine Demoness

Korean Peninsula:

Manchuria:

Japanese Archipelago:

Seats of Power: Kyoto and Medieval Japan, Tranquility adorned in Flora

Coastal River Basin:

Seats of Power: Chang'an and the Tang Dynasty, City of One Hundred and One Cities

Central Asia:

East Asian Steppe:

Seats of Power: Otuken/Ordubalik and the Gokturk Khaganate, Where All Power and Authority Derives

Shangjing/Lihuangfu: Imperial Splendor of the Half Barbarians

Desert Basin Complex:

Seats of Power: Loulan and the Tocharian Cities, Golden Silk Oasis

Seats of Power: Qocho

Central Asian Mountain Complex:

Turan Basin:

Seats of Power: Merv and the Medival MiddleEast, Rendezvous of Great and Small

North America:

Northeast Woodlands:

Seats of Power: Cahokia and the Mississippian Culture, Spiritual Nucleus of the Great River

Central America:

Seats of Power: Tenochtitlan and the Aztec Empire, Prickled Crown Sprout from Blood

South America:

Andes:

Seats of Power: Chan Chan, Solar Glory of the Chimu

[koraesrambles]

KORAES SUPER DUPER COMIC READING CHALLENGE 2024

Alright, I've decided to set a goal for myself. I've been binge reading comics for over a year but only of a specific variety and it's time to expand my tastes. Especially since OUTCAST ODYSSEY is updating on webtoons. The more comics I read, the better my own comic should be, right? I mean, supposedly.

I decided to read 100 of the top graphic novels on goodreads. The list spans all ages and genres, so there's going to be some VARIETY here. There are some graphic novels I've already read (like Maus or Calvin and Hobbes) that I didn't include. I dunno if I could handle reading Maus again (It stabs you in the heart, twists it and pulls it from your chest still beating, but instead of being happy about it like I am with fiction it's soured by the realization that this actually happened and then I want to die).

Here's the list I copy and pasted from Goodreads. If you don't see your favorite on here, add it! I need to read all of the things!

Watchmen

V for Vendetta

Batman the Dark Night Returns

Saga

The Complete Persepolils

The Sandman

Y: The Last Man

Batman: Year One

Batman: The Long Halloween

The Walking Dead

Preacher

Sin City

Locke & Key

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Fables

From Hell

Blankets

Fun Home: A family tragicomic

The Arrival

Haven

The Far Side Gallery

Marvels

Kick-Ass

Habibi

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Pride of Baghdad

Cult Girls

The Crow

The Absolute Batman: Hush

Chew

Amulet

X-men: The Dark Pheonix

American Born Chinese

The Umbrella Academy

Kingdom Come

The Absolute Death

Marvel 1602

Sweet Tooth

The Cartoon History of the Universe

Transmetropolitan

Superman: Red Son

All Star Superman

The Ultimates

The Unwritten

Runaways

Astonishing X-Men: Ultimate

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Planetary

Wolverine: Origin

Identity Crisis

Black Hole: A graphic novel

Spider-Man: Blue

Hellboy: Library Edition

The Books of Magic

Astonishing X-Men

Lone Wolf & Cub

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter

300

Squee

Rat Queens

The Uncanny X-Men: Days of Future Past

Monstress

Wolverine: Weapon X

The Wicked + the Divine

Captain America: Winter Soldier

My Friend Dahmer

Blake Orchid

Dr. 2

Once Upon a Time

Superman: Secret Identity

Asterios Polyp

Ex-Machina

Domu: A Child's Dream

One Piece

Civil War

Mouse Guard

Summer Blonde

Desolation Jones: Made in England

I Kill Giants

Pumpkin Heads

The Wolves in the Walls

The Batman Adventures: Mad Love

Through the Woods

Absolute Dark Knight

Lenore

The Fountain

The Eternal Smile: Three Stories

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl

Death Note

Girl Genius

Wonderstruck

The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch

Happy New Year

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

Skooter Girl

Daytripper

A Little Prince in the Land of the Mullahs

Absolute Justice

Wanted

Velvet

Obviously, a lot of these are series, and I'm not going to read the whole series of every book on this list. If I like it enough, I might continue it for fun, but it won't count toward the list. I'll cross the title off as I finish them and write up my thoughts. Cuz what's the point if I don't post an analysis, right?

[totallyhussein-blog]

Education is the passport to the future

Leaders of the Jacob Benjamin Elias Synagogue in Stamford Hill, London, hope a £300,000 extension will be finished in January and will improve dining, educational and social facilities for the Sephardi community.

Shul president Barook Abraham said: "Our congregation consists mainly of Iraqi Jews with some Syrian and Persian Jews. We want to extend links to Asian and Moroccan Jews. By having more activities in shul, we hope to establish a more integrated community."

The American Sephardi Federation preserves and promotes the history, traditions, and rich mosaic culture of Greater Sephardic communities, as an integral part of the Jewish experience.

Along with public education services, the American Sephardi Federation also run Diarna, who are working digitally to preserve Jewish history across the Middle East and North Africa.

The Sephardic Studies Digital Collection (SSDC) at the University of Washington serves as a bulwark against the loss of culture, language, and history.

As the world’s first major digital repository of sources pertaining to the historically significant Sephardic Jews of the Mediterranean world, the SSDC includes key archival documents.

[open-your-heart-and-your-eyes]

BIPOC PEOPLE IN THE ROCK MUSIC INDUSTRY

Post inspired by, and is an extension of this lovely post about POC emo icons by @rpf-bat. If I get anything wrong, please feel free to correct me. I’m going to try to keep the bios relatively short and sweet so I don’t write an entire essay. All my information was found from Google/Spotify search results or my pre-existing knowledge. Feel free to DM me for specific sources. Fair Use for educational purposes, no copywright infringement intended.

Acrassicauda: Iraqi metal band from Baghdad. Andy Capper and Gabi Sifre wrote Heavy Metal in Baghdad: The Story of Acrassicauda about the band’s formation and their fight to be able to play the music they love.

Booboo Stewart (Vic Lakota from The Relentless in Paradise City and American Satan, Seth Clearwater from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Jay from Disney’s Descendants, among many others): Blackfoot, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.

Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman): biracial- Kenyan and white (quick side note: Morello has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Harvard, which I thought was really cool).

The HU: Mongolian metal band. They’ve worked with the likes of Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach (The Wolf’s Totem), Lzzy Hale of Halestorm (Song of Women), and Danny Case of From Ashes to New (Yuve Yuve Yu).

Jose “The Metal Ambassador” Mangin (radio personality/host and interviewer, Sirius XM): Mexican-American. Is often hosting on Sirius XM Octane and Liquid Metal.

Meet Me @ The Altar: Pop punk trio made up entirely of BIPOC musicians Edith Johnson (Black), Téa Campbell (Black), and Ada Juarez (Latinx). Three of their popular songs are Hit Like a Girl, Feel a Thing, and Garden.

Nandi Bushell: Zulu and white. The twelve year-old drummer has collaborated with Roman Morello, Tom Morello, Jack Black, and Greta Thunberg on Roman’s song The Children Will Rise Up! She has also played with the likes of Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, Roger Taylor of Queen, Ringo Starr of The Beatles, and Matt Helders of The Arctic Monkeys (and likely more that I’m missing).

Joe Hahn (Linkin Park, Mr. Hahn): Korean-American. The man behind the band’s turntables and keyboard. Linkin Park’s Cure for The Itch on their album Hybrid Theory (2000) specifically highlights Hahn on the turntables within the first minute.

Ayron Jones: African-American. Jones is gaining traction in the scene. Two songs of his I’d like to note are Spinning Circles and Mercy from his 2021 album Child of the State. He has toured with the likes of Shinedown (and makes a hilarious feature in one of the band’s Tiktoks) and will tour with The Pretty Reckless and Black Stone Cherry this year.

BIPOC ICONS

Chuck Berry (The Chuck Berry Trio, Sir John’s Trio) Black. Widely successful, influential singer and guitarist known for Johnny B. Goode, You Can Never Tell, and No Particular Place To Go. Berry’s legacy is still deeply felt in his contemporaries today.

Prince (Prince and The Revolution, “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince,” 3rdeyegirl, Madhouse, 94 East, The Family) Black. Groundbreaking, inventive, and androgynous artist known for hits like When Doves Cry and Purple Rain. Prince has also written songs for others like Sinead O’Connor (Nothing Compares 2 U) and The Bangles (Manic Monday).

Jimi Hendrix (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Band of Gypsys, Kings of Rhythm, Jimmy James and The Blue Frames): Black and Cherokee. Acknowledged by many to be one of the greatest (if not the greatest) guitarists of all time.

Slash (Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver, Spinal Tap, Road Crew, and entirely too many others to list): biracial- Nigerian and white. He’s the guitarist for Guns N Roses, whose hits include (but are not limited to) Welcome to The Jungle and Sweet Child O’ Mine. He joined his bandmates of Guns N’ Roses Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum in the early 2000s to form Velvet Revolver, recruiting Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots for vocals. He continues to release music, especially with Myles Kennedy of Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators and Alter Bridge (see Driving Rain).

Robert Trujilo (Metallica, Suicidal Tendencies, Mass Mental, Infectious Grooves): Mexican and unspecified Native American descent. Trujilo replaced Jason Newsted as guitarist for Metallica, starting as a full time recording member with St. Anger (2003).

Carlos Santana (Santana): Mexican-born Latinx. A legendary guitarist, Santana’s song Smooth featuring Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas is still an incredibly popular hit to this day. A prolific part of the song is Santana’s guitar work at the beginning of and throughout the song. The riff is considered to rather iconic to rock music as a genre.

Freddie Mercury (Queen): Indian Parsi, born in Zanzibar. Mercury is also considered to be an LGBTQIA+ icon by many. He was a groundbreaking and charismatic performer (not to mention his prolific appearance and fashion). His absolute powerhouse of a voice behind Queen’s innumerable hits like Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, and We Are The Champions earned Mercury a deity-like status in both the music industry and pop culture as a whole. He continues to influence and inspire many in the decades since his death.

To all my BIPOC beauties/handsome people:

You exist in this industry. You belong. Do not let anyone in this scene erase or invalidate you.

[mais36]

لقطة للقمر في سماء بغـــداد هذا المساء ..

Full "wolf" moon lights up the night sky in Baghdad - Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022

[matchamorphosis]

I’m going book shopping tomorrow, might you have some recommendations?

here you go! hope your shopping goes well ♡

━ norwegian wood by haruki murakami

━ the master and margarita by mikhail bulgakov

━ the art of happiness by dalai lama

━ a clockwork orange by anthony burgess

━ a river out of eden by richard dawkins

━ the divine comedy by dante

━ the idiot by elif batumen

━ five point something by chetan bhagat

━ the brief wondrous life of oscar wao by junot diaz

━ the rules of attraction by bret easton ellis

━ been down so long it looks like up to me by richard farina

━ the gate of angels by penelope fitzgerald

━ the collective by don lee

━ on beauty by zodie smith

━ I am charlotte simmons by tom wolfe

━ murals by mahmoud darwish

━ men in the sun by ghassan kanafani

━ out of place by edward said

━ one flew over the cuckoos nest by ken kessey

━ a streetcar named desire by tennessee williams

━ just kids by patti smith

━ the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky

━ to the light house by virginia wolf

━ by grand central station, I sat down and wept by elizabeth smart

━ pilgrim at tinker creek by annie dillard

━ the myth of sisyphus by albert camus

━ the benefactor by susan sontag

━ a thousand mornings by mary oliver

━ 1984 and animal farm by george orwell

━ baghdad diaries by nuha al-radi

━ dead poets society by tom schulman

━ naked lunch by william s. burroughs

━ sula by toni morrison

━ the four agreements by don miguel ruiz

━ not that bad by rachel gray

━ the art of thinking clearly by rolf dobelli

━ the invisible life of addie laroe by v. e. schwab

━ the mystery of love by don miguel ruiz

━ the loneliness companion by shrein h. bahram

━ the butterfly garden by dot hutcherson

━ orientalism by edward w. said

━ the trouble with being born by emil cioran

━ embroideries by marjane satrabi

━ such a fun age by keily reid

━ freedom is a constant struggle by angela davis

━ my brilliant friend by elena ferrante

━ the hundred years’ war on palestine by rashid khalad

━ our body and other parties by carmen maria machado

━ the body keeps count by besse kolk

━ on earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

━ in search of fatima by ghada karmi

━ minor detail by adania shibili

━ midnight library by matt haig

━ orbiting jupiter by gary d. schmidt

━ the collective by don lee

━ reading lolita in tehran by azar nafisi

━ the dean's december + more die of heartbreak by saul bellow

━ four quartets by t. s. eliot

━ shamela + tom jones by henry fielding

━ madame bovary by gustave flaubert

━ the diary of anne frank by anne frank

━ in the penal colony + the trial by franz kafka

━ the confidence-man by herman melville

━ invitation to a beheading + pnin by vladimir nabokov

━ the country of the pointed firs by sarah orne jewett

━ persepolis by marjane satrapi

━ the language police by diane ravitch

━ the net of dreams by julie salamon

━ one thousand and one nights by scheherazade

━ the emigrants by W.G. sebald

━ the stone diaries by carol shields

━ the engineer of human souls by josef skvorecky

━ loitering with intent + the prime of miss jean brodie by muriel spark

━ confessions of zeno by italo svevo

━ address unknown by katherine kressman taylor

━ a summons to memphis by peter taylor

━ back when we were grownups + st. maybe by anne taylor

━ aunt julia and the scriptwriter by mario vargas llosa