#tarboush

[friskafriskito]

...I caved and made a Malevolent OC too. Here's my travel journalist, Ashraf Mounib Fawzi! He'll insist you call him Mr. Ashraf and not Mr. Fawzi, if you please!

He's currently 50 and staying between New York and Arkham, Massachusetts for his next project. With the exception of a certain American investigator indirectly starting his career, he’s just there on the sidelines without the full picture of what's going on. He likes to people-watch and has collected a lot weird anecdotes that way.

At some point, shortly after arriving in Arkham, someone anonymously left him an entire camera! A newer model too, with an unsigned note. How very kind! The photos have been a bit off, as of late, but I’m sure it’s completely fine and benign. :)

Wait who’s this bozo—

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I’m trying not to dump EVERYTHING I know about him here (I have a whole historical timeline I’ve subjected people to 😆) , but have me yapping my personal reasons for making the character and the themes you’ll expect down below!

Why:

This is actually something of a tiny project for me! Recently I realised how very little I know about contemporary Egyptian history. So I decided to stuff my current hyperfixation into that knowledge gap!

My mom’s pretty excited; she used to be a tour guide so she was very eager to help me figure out his timeline. I had to explain that this is just a guy I made up for the horror podcast I like who I will realistically draw only occasionally. 😅 She’s still really happy and it’s been fun using this to spend time with her.

Themes:

It was a common sentiment back then and still continues today; Egyptians wanting to adopt progressive ideas and fighting to be respected by Western peers, while also feeling like they’re losing their roots and contributing to their own exploitation.

Also included are fun things like family estrangement and grief! In Malevolent? Unheard of! Not to worry, I’m sure he shall also face supernatural horrors as well. If not through me, friends have already made the offer to do it themselves! …I am afraid—

[bobemajses]

A Jewish couple in Ottoman Jerusalem, 19th century.

The man wears a striped sudra as a turban, while most citified Arabs at the time wore the Turkish tarboush (fez). The sudra, either worn around the neck or on the head, is a rare, authentic piece of indigenous Jewish dress, that is believed to be thousands of years old and is referred to in the Bible. Today, it is less known due to cultural colonization and from Jews being forced to collectively remove them due to persecution.

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

La Kippa en tricot, feutre, satin, boukharian et plus

Une kippa, ou kippa, est une sorte de bonnet minimal qui recouvre le sommet de la tête. Il est porté à des fins religieuses. Certains Juifs porteront une kippa sous un autre type de chapeau. Il existe plusieurs styles de kippot (le pluriel de kippa) qui sont courants dans le monde. Souvent, le style de la kippa portée indique l'affiliation religieuse et politique de celui qui la porte.

Velvet Kippah

Bukharian Kippah

Yemenite Kippah

Breslov Kippah

Shtreimel, Spodik, Kolpik

Fedoras, Hoiche Hats and Platchige Biber Hats

Kashket

Fez or Tarboush

[unfoldingnarratives]

When your bag finally arrives and you unbox lots of Lebanese yummy food! #bag #yummy #olives #zaatar #tarboush #sfouf #debs #finally

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[siinlayth]

Stamps by Euromed Postal showcasing some traditional Lebanese clothing.

[offendum]

“Y’all know what #Shami moms say? A #LittleSyria can go a really long way.” 🪬 Much love to EVERYONE who came out to experience our two sold-out shows at @herearts this past Saturday! 🙏🏼 Me & my brothers @ronniemalley & @thanksjoey are committed to making each & every show a little more special than the last — and that is exactly what we did my people … Wallah I love these brothers to the qamar & back. 💫 There was also an incredible team of multi-hyphenate creatives behind the scenes who were responsible for the magic that happened & we are grateful to them for their invaluable contributions — our brilliant director Ridwan Adhami who went above & beyond to ensure the vision was realized with #Damascene / #QueensNY precision, our fabulous styling team @randaeidstylist & designer @zaidfarouki who honor our homeland’s #Levantine textile traditions in innovative & timeless ways, our hardworking producers @c_troconis7 & @chaletguerry who handled every request with care & grace, our lighting designer @hidirellez_at_unionknott who has forever changed how I understand light & gave us the ability to shine even brighter, our set designer @karinelgai who arranged my family heirlooms in a beautiful way & added her own personal touches to bring it all together, the film team at @lensendmedia who captured it so exquisitely (which I can’t wait to start giving you all glimpses of in the coming months!), & last but certainly not least, our wives + children at #home whose #love & #support make our careers possible. 🤍 Of course I’d be remiss if I didn’t give a huge thank you to @raceforward’s Butterfly Lab + Chrysalis grant for believing in me & this project’s ability to help nurture & cultivate a pro-#immigrant future for us all. 🗽 … Oh and yes, in what was clearly yet another stroke of #Syriandipity, there appeared a mural of a man in a #tarboush right next door to the venue. 😉🚨🧿 More soon ya 7abayeb. ✍🏼 #Sinsyrianly — #OmarOffendum. // 📸 @ridzdesign. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci-QdiwulfS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[aesthetickingbo]

I had lunch next to Christian Lagadec, from Grimm, at Tarboush on Hawthorne. I couldn’t get a picture of him, because he was sitting turned away from me. It’s the first Grimm actor I’ve seen IRL, and I’ve lived in Portland the entire time the show has existed.

[tastelessturd]

Cat in a Fez. #cat #fez #tarboush #catsofinstagram #catstagram #cats_of_instagram #tastelessturd #tt #instaArt #artistsoninstagram #doodle #sketch #drawing #art #illustration #originalArtwork #originalArt #digitalArt #digitalDrawing #digitalSketch #digitalDoodle #lowbrow #lowbrowArt #lowbrowArtist #dailysketch #dailydoodle

[theartistroomgallery]

#theartistroomweeklyshowcase #followus on IG @the_artistroom & @mr.fab_83 ¶ ¶ presenting a very talented young #artist #illustrator ¶ ¶ @mahassenmasrii ¶ Name: Errorist (Hybrid Barefoot Bobh) 2020 Limited poster print of only 10 copies, signed & numbered by the artist in either A4 or A3 size. eu_78 ¶ ¶ You can purchase this original art work also at www.ArtPal.com/theartistroom ¶ ¶ The character developed when her mind was full of uncertainties and she was searching for a medium to channel the voices in her head into something meaningful. Barefoot Bobh, spontaneous and disoriented, is not just a character but it’s a product of Mahassen’s struggle to overcome an artistic block. Barefoot Bobh stimulates the imprudent side of her personality, he excites and challenges her imagination. In our mundane lives, we often tend to chase what’s more significant, thus overlooking the beauty of uncomplicated things that life throws at us. As an artist, she believes her duty is to capture these simplicities in time and give it a structure and form. The artist grew up in the heart of Beirut city in Lebanon, with a mixed cultural exposure, of the west and the oriental east. This reflects in her work, which ranges from Arabic calligraphy to Pop Art. While the former might have been more of a cultural allegiance, the latter is most definitely driven by her passion. Her work is minimalistic, pen on paper with digital renders. Focusing more on the context of the situation. Her work discovers the hidden raw emotions of human beings. Emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements, she explores the healing power of art through her work. #art #hybrid #machine #sci_fi #mask #tarboush #crossover #alienated #postapocalyptic #futuristic #distopia #technology #human #talentart #valueart #collectoriginalart #artcollectors #artgallery #artinrome #canvas #10Kfollow #10Kfollowme #followforfollow #10Kfollow4follow #10Kfollowers (presso Spazio Faro now The Artist Room) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBAVE4PjCf4/?igshid=12yyrpiugnls4

[simobenz]

Tonight : La 8eme édition de la soirée festif TRADI-MODE (Traditionnel et Moderne) Festif qui aura lieu a JET 7 (Casablanca) #TARBOUSH #RED #TRADIMODERNE #MOROCCO #CASABLANCA #JET7CASABLANCA #8thEDITION #LOVE #PARTY #FUN #FOOD #PEOPLE #MUSIC #ARTSbyBENZ #MARCH2020 #STOLI #CORONAEXTRA #REDBULL (at JET 7) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9bt9hFndGkCNEPX2xH12eaG72K_BQFM1OfzU80/?igshid=1o2t4ab9sisu7

[kismetic]

1. Marie el-Khazen, a prominent photographer of 1920s Lebanon, and her sister, are both sporting a tarboush and men’s suits.

2. Woman in men’s attire. Photographed by Marie el-Khazen. Zgharta, Lebanon (1927).

-alraidajournal.com

[petsincollections]

Polish immigrant

A Polish colonel of signals now lives in a tiny farm cottage in Britain and keeps hens and a few cows. He adopted the Tarboush during his service in Egypt.

via Europeana

[eretzyisrael]

This refugee’s heart still belongs in Egypt

Viviane Bowell used her free time during the coronavirus lockdown in 2020 to write her memoirs of her country of birth, Egypt. From Egypt with love is a deeply personal, thoughtful work with not a trace of bitterness. Lyn Julius reviews the book in Times of Israel:

In 1956, one of the famous hit songs of the time was ‘Que será será. The song is indelibly associated with the Suez crisis in a 14-year old Jewish girl’s memory.  It may have been a footnote in most history books, but the  crisis of 1956 turned Viviane Bowell’s life upside down.

Viviane  was a shy and awkward teenager, cocooned from the outside world by her parents. She  only spoke French and Arabic. Within a month of the Franco-British-Israeli attack on the Suez Canal,  the family was forced to leave their native Cairo. Jews of British and French nationality were punished as  ‘collateral damage’ in politics. Viviane’s mother was British, and it soon appeared that any Jew (Viviane’s father was stateless) was fair game for expulsion. Viviane’s parents signed a ‘voluntary’ paper ‘donating’ their property to the Egyptian state. They left with 20 kg and 20 Egyptian pounds in their pockets while their tearful servants bid them goodbye. From a warm, dusty and bustling metropolis they were catapulted in the bleak British midwinter into a Gloucestershire hostel serving pork sausages and boiled cabbage. Resettled  in London,  her parents never spoke about Egypt, yet only socialised with other Egyptian Jews.

It was during the coronavirus lockdown that Viviane decided to set down what he remembered of Egypt. The manuscript was originally intended for her grandson but then became a popular self-published memoir.

There has been an explosion of memoirs by Jews from Egypt, mostly middle class Jews  displaced by the Suez crisis. Viviane Bowell appears to have read most of them. She conjures up a rich picture of the Cairo of her youth, the fellucas on the Nile, the grand avenues, the department stores, the famous tea room Groppi, where her parents met for the first time, the languid summers on the beach in Alexandria. She includes some important historical context, as well as interesting diversions into superstitions and the popular songs and films of the time.

Viviane’s family on her father’s side, the Chouchans,  was Ladino-speaking Sephardi, originally from Toledo via Istanbul. Her mother’s family, the Gubbays, were Arabic-speakers from Aleppo in Syria. They typified the Jews of Egypt, drawn from disparate corners of the Ottoman empire, most relatively recent arrivals attracted by the opening of the Suez canal in 1869. But the Jews lived in Egypt, says Viviane,  ‘like a grafted limb’ – of Egypt, yet  apart from it.

In charting the gathering storm leading up to her uprooting Viviane dwells on the events of 25 January 1952. The Free Officers’ Revolution does not largely figure in Jewish memoirs  – but it was a seminal moment. It began as a reaction to 40 policemen killed by the British. Viviane watched from her apartment balcony as a furious crowd  swept down her street, setting  fire to large sections of Cairo –  including Groppi, the Cicurel and Orosdi Bak department stores, Barclays Bank, cinemas, cafes, banks, and the Shepheard Hotel – where British officers used to sip their gin slings. The red tarboush worn by effendi(gentlemen) was abolished overnight and substantial sectors of the economy nationalised. Five thousand Jews left between 1952 and 1956. But Viviane’s family would not have left had they not have been forced to.

Unlike many other  memoirs, Viviane’s  examines the psychological effects of uprooting on her later life. ‘From Egypt with love’ tries to make sense of how her ambivalent relationship with her parents impacted on her. In many ways  she was a repressed feminist.  Her failure to  break free of traditional ties resulted in a  succession of missed opportunities,  a broken marriage and a nervous breakdown.

Visiting Cairo 40 years later, Viviane hardly recognises her home city, yet acknowledges that ‘the past defines us and makes us who we are today.’ Her story is that of 850,000 Jews driven from Arab countries. There is an irrepressible optimism about the book – The refugees were survivors, not victims.. ‘A calamity is only a calamity when your response to it is to accept victimhood,’ she writes.  Although her family lived in a social bubble,  her heart still belongs in Egypt. In this thoughtful, deeply personal  and well-researched memoir,  there is no trace of bitterness,  just an acceptance, and a certain cheerful fatalism: ‘Que será será’.

To Egypt with love : memories of a bygone age by Viviane Bowell (2021)

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[nassimzoghbi]

#Decoration #Painting #Arabic #ContemporaryArt #Lady #Tarboush #Hotel #Carlton #Tunis #Tunisia #DZ in #TN (at Hotel Carlton Tunis)

[tef90-blog]

#lebanesefolklore #tarboush #mylittleman 💙