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@zwingham’s lecture “A Brief History of the African Diaspora in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey” is now online as a podcast, 1st of a series exploring various articulations of Black identity in Central Asia, Caucasus and Eastern Europe https://t.co/gCRsyhl4ed
Brilliant compendium of Persian proverbs translated into Russian. Here’s a couple of our favorites. “Like a Kufi aleph” to describe people hunched over w bad posture (resembling the letter’s shape in Kufic script)