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“Rêver de la Tunisie” de Hicham Djaït, Editions Vilo, 1971.

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Tunisie de Jean Duvignaud et Abdelhamid Kahia, Editions Kahia, Tunis, 1964. Photos de Abdelhamid Kahia.

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at the marketplace. bihać, bosnia, 1936. by andre zucca 

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Lebanese women in traditional clothing. c.1950’s

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"During Kraljevo massacre in October 1941 when German forces gathered citizens to be executed, a sacristan of local church named Dragoslav started reading from New Testament. Seeing that Germans are about to open fire he shouted "Fear not of death brothers, Christ is risen!"

Gun fire thundered and 2200 Christian bodies fell, 2200 souls joined the heavenly army of martyrs for the faith in Christ."

- St Nikolaj Velimirović, speech in Chicago on Easter of 1946

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"A university degree, four books and hundreds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me "Good morning" and I read it as "I love you".

Mahmoud Darwish

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Until my heart beats for the last time,

only then, perhaps, I would stop loving you.

Perhaps.

-Ahmed Khaled Tawfik

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ما هو الحب في رأيك؟

أن تبتسم حين يبدأ احدهُم بالحديث معك، دون أن يخبرك شيءً مميزاً، فقط 'مرحباً.'

What do you think is love?

To smile when someone starts talking to you, without telling you anything special, just 'hello.'

– Mahmoud Darwish

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"You wont find the same person twice, not even in the same person"

- Mahmoud Darwish

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Jewish (Sephardic) couple from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1910

The first Jews came to Sarajevo, later called "Little Jerusalem", from the Iberian Peninsula in the early 16th century, bringing with them the Ladino language and Sephardi customs. A prosperous Jewish quarter with a synagogue was erected in 1577 under the pasha Siavush. Known to the Bosnians as tchifut-khan, the Jews themselves called it El Cortijo (the communal yard). Making up more than 20% of Sarajevo' total population, they maintained excellent relations with their Bosnian Christian and Muslim neighbors and held renowned positions as merchants, weavers, tailors, blacksmiths and hatchims (from the Arabic-Turkish Hakīm, "doctor"). With the Holocaust, this rich Jewish life and history tragically came to an end.

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Tunisian Jews in Djebra photographed by Frank Scherschel, 1950s

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The Krepcha inscription

Dated to year 921, the Krepcha inscription is the oldest Cyrillic text to date. It is from the stone monastery of Krepcha village, Bulgaria.

The text reads as:

"In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Here rests the righteous Father Antoni. †. And whoever makes a granary in the church (could also be read as a barn), to answer before God. The unworthy Mihail wrote. Amen."

Another less preserved inscription from the monastery reads: "In the year 6430 in the month of October Anton, lord's servant, passed away".

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Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem by Gustave Doré

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Carrying the Cross by Igor Sushenok

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Christ and Pilate “What is truth?” by Igor Sushenok

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Crusaders Sighting Jerusalem by Edwin Austin Abbey