What Are Your Favorite Arabic Poems, If You Have Any?

in love with these fragmented portions of a Sumerian lullaby

fuck the talking stage let’s just have a homoerotic sword fight and passionately make out after almost killing each other

i’d love it if a boy taught me how to dance

lines from the epic of gilgamesh that make me feel like this

Russian Monk. (5/10)

Hope you enjoy:)

Gold and platinum Art Nouveau plaque-de-cou necklace from 1903 with an emerald and diamonds by Henri Dubret (1872-1947), Paris, France.

📸 Macklowe gallery

Illustrations by Vyacheslav Nazaruk to the tales of Pavel Bazhov

El, Father of the Gods, and the King of Ugarit

Ugarit, Syria

13th century BCE

Top: Image from cover of "Stories from Ancient Canaan" by Michael David Coogan, 1978

Bottom: Ancient Near Eastern Pictures Relating to the Old Testament

James Pritchard, 1969

Domari people (middle eastern romani) of Palestine

(1) A domari tent in Jerusalem near the Damascus Gate, 1920s

(2) A domari street circus in Jerusalem, 1905

(3) Domari dancer and musician in Mandatory Palestine, 1930s

(4) Domari settlement at the north of the Damascus Gate, 1914

(5) Domari musician and dancers in Galilee, 1920s

(6) Domari women and children in a domari settlement in Mandatory Palestine, 1920s

7) Domari woman with seashells in the hand to tell fortune, near the sea of Galilee in Palestine, 1930s