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Handmade Gonbad Persian, Isfahan Rug.

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Israel is mass murdering the innocent civilians of Lebanon, especially children.

On Monday (23 September, 2024) Israel killed one person in the country every three minutes.

Thousands more civilians have been wounded.

Source: AJ+

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-Majnuu

The above quote was from one of Qays ibn al-Mulawwah (Majnun’s) poetry that was recorded for Layla bint Mahdi (Layla) before his descent into madness // Story of Layla and Majnun (book) was written by a Persian poet "Nizami Ganjavi" who wrote this masterpiece based on a true story of a young man called Qays ibn al-Mulawwah (Majnun) in the 7th century when Arabs defeated Persia and Ctesiphon was destroyed and Persians built Iraq. // Originally the book was published in 1484 AD

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Sometimes Allah destroys our plan before our plan destroys us. There is a beauty in our unanswered prayer.

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breakfasts from the last couple weeks…lots of apples and eggs and jam and yogurt

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La Riffa (1991)

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I am tired of explaining the fire,

It burns because it must.

Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway

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Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Sinan Antoon, from “In The Presence of Absence,”

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Traditional Moroccan entrance

Fes, Morocco

(Benoit Demers)

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Yves Olade, from Bloodsport; “When rome falls”

[Text ID: “You look like you’ve eaten the sun, like / you drank so much sunlight you’re drowning in it.”]

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Zen kitty

(via)

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Yehuda Amichai, from The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai; “Threading,”

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Ya Allah, you know my problems better than me, forgive me and grant me what is best for me.