Category: Photography

via Instagram https://ift.tt/2IbPFxY “When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.” Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
#dumas
#alexanderdumas
#paris
#wcharaf September 17, 2019 at 12:03PM

via Instagram https://ift.tt/2UXmDr5 @wissamcofficial will be talking about the history of all the Arab flags on Wednesday 9-16-19 at the Arab American Museum Library at 9pm in English. #wcharaf September 16, 2019 at 03:35PM

via Instagram https://ift.tt/32I9Lru The uncooperative position of the hawzah with king Faisal of Iraq, culminating into the departure of the Mujtahids to Iran on July 1, 1923, waisted an opportunity of establishing a lasting positive relationship between government and religious institution in Iraq. That relationship is restored now, but with a divergence of values, of which Iraq is paying a prince.
#iraq
#hawzah
#hawza
#wissamsundaymornings
#wcharaf September 14, 2019 at 08:39AM

via Instagram https://ift.tt/34IKZt6 “You never see any of the the 100’s of illegal African souvenir salesmen, Indian beer salesmen, Bengali flower salesmen, or the cigarette bud and beer bottle caps infested grounds around Eiffel Tower in the Instagram photos of this place despite it is the most photographed area in the world.” #wcharaf September 12, 2019 at 09:21PM

via Instagram https://ift.tt/34EZnm6 I can’t tell you yet what an Arab American Identity is, but I can tell what it shouldn’t be. It should not be the simultaneous feeling that you are not Arabic enough and you are not American enough. #wcharaf #arabidentity #arabamerican #arabamericanidentity September 12, 2019 at 10:28AM

via Instagram https://ift.tt/305BIrh I like people who Revolt, not immigrate.
#louvre
#wcharaf “Liberty leading people” by Eugene Delacroix 1830 September 11, 2019 at 09:08AM

via Instagram https://ift.tt/32GOsXn Anti-Extremism Extremism is moderation.
#wcharaf September 10, 2019 at 11:10PM

via Instagram https://ift.tt/2N9h1J3 Remember that every progress in human rights and civil liberties, especially in America, did not come from the halls of Congress, but, other than from court, it came from rebellion, riots, and civil disobedience, challenging existing laws and norms, and being blasphemous, illegal, defiant, and accepting the vilification and demonizing of society.
#wcharaf
#arabspring2 September 10, 2019 at 11:07PM

via Instagram https://ift.tt/34xRzlX If Ashurah was about social justice, then Shia would visit the Stonewall Cafe, and Rosa Parks bus as much as they would visit Karbala.
#wcharaf #ashurah #imamhussain #karbala September 10, 2019 at 04:53PM

via Instagram https://ift.tt/2Q00NEw “In Paris, explanations come in a predictable sequence, no matter what is being explained. First comes the explanation in terms of the unique, romantic individual, then the explanation in terms of ideological absolutes, and then the explanation in terms of the futility of all explanation. So, for instance, if your clothes-drier breaks down and you want to get the people from BHV to come and fix it, you will be told first that only one man knows how it works and he cannot be found (explanation in terms of the gifts of the romanticised individual); next, that it cannot be fixed for a week because of a store policy (explanation in terms of ideological necessity); and, finally, that you are perfectly right to find all this exasperating, but nothing can be done because it is in the nature of things for a drier to break down, driers are like that (futility of explanation itself).”
Adam Gopnik

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#wcharaf September 09, 2019 at 04:41PM