tabsir.net: Picturing Syria
The photographer Narcisso Contreras has an extraordinary gallery of photographs taken in Syria and Egypt on his website. His biography, as taken from his website, is as follows: Narciso Contreras is a...
View Articletabsir.net: Charlie’s Speech
In Charlie Chaplin’s marvelous satirical response to Hitler in The Great Dictator there is a profound speech, available with Arabic subtitles and quite relevant to the fighting currently going on in...
View Articletabsir.net: Wellcome Library Arabic Manuscripts Online
عجايب المخلوقات وغرايب المخلوقات الموجودات The Arabic manuscripts collection of the Wellcome Library (London) comprises around 1000 manuscript books and fragments relating to the history of medicine....
View Articletabsir.net: Pass the Pistacios
In the current issue of ARAMCO World, which is available free online, there is an interesting article on how Iranian pistacios came to California. Click here for the full article. I attach a teaser...
View Articletabsir.net: The “Science” of Hatred
A mass grave near Zvornik from which more than 500 corpses were exhumed, 2002; photograph by Tarek Samarah In a recent open access article, The Science of Hatred, in The Chronicle of Higher Education,...
View Articletabsir.net: Tabsir Redux: When the Fat Lady Sings
For those fortunate enough to own a MAC computer there is the digital blessing of ITunes. One of the stations listed under “Eclectic” is “The 1920’s Radio Network” which features jazz and vaudeville...
View Articletabsir.net: Sitt Marvel
Why can’t Spiderman convert to Islam? by Leon Moosavi, Al Jazeera, Nov. 27, 2013 [Editor’s Note: There are a number of hyperlinks in the original Al Jazeera article which are not reproduced here by a...
View Articletabsir.net: Women and Peacebuilding in Yemen
Women and Peacebuilding in Yemen: challenges and opportunities by Najwa Adra, NOREF, 12 November 2013 This expert analysis explores hurdles facing and opportunities available to Yemeni women in light...
View Articletabsir.net: When I wore the hijab: Power and the headscarf
I put on my daughter’s abaya, took a picture of myself, and used it as my profile picture on Twitter and Facebook. (Photo supplied: Abdullah Hamidaddin) by Abdullah Hamidaddin, Al-Arabiya, November...
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