Tag Archives: Syria

1936: Untitled

Posted on November 26, 2018 by corvusfugit

Amy Nimr: Untitled (1936)

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2016: His Strange and Awesome Fairy Tale Like House of Books

Posted on October 24, 2017 by corvusfugit

 A few miles northwest of Tunis, with its sidewalk cafés and streets lined by rows of manicured ficus trees and its avenues named after European cities, there is a poor suburb of eighty thousand people called Douar Hicher….In November, I … Continue reading →

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1481: Astrolabe

Posted on September 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

The only surviving spherical astrolabe was purchased at auction in 1962 by the Oxford Museum of the History of Science. It is signed by its maker, Mūsa (the Arabic equivalent of Moses), who is otherwise unknown—but the particular style of  … Continue reading →

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2014: Homesick

Posted on August 6, 2017 by corvusfugit

A still from Hrair Sarkissian’s video Homesick (2014), in  which he destroys a scale model of the apartment building in Damascus in which he grew up and where his parents still live.

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