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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 5h

Sadly, I'm not in Abu Dhabi but I liked the text, thank you for sharing it!

Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 7h

* program (and probably more) 😬

Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 7h

That program is like a wish list come true, I love Peter Burke's books and connoisseurship is an interesting and important topic.

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 7h

... just recently thought I'd like to read a book about him but couldn't find one (in the languages I'm able to read, that's a limiting factor, of course).

PDF of spring/summer 2026: reaktionbooks.co.uk/wp-content/u...

reaktionbooks.co.uk

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 8h

Reaktion Books has an exceptionally well made programm for spring/smmer 2026, I scroll through the PDF and cannot stop smiling. I'm particularly looking forward to these arthistorical books on Francisco de Zurbarán and Lorenzo Ghiberti in "Renaissance Lives" and "The Age of Sinan" 😍 I've ...

David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 8h

Books on Auden, Mao, Qaddafi, Edwin Morgan's concrete poetry, Stooges' Raw Power, fascism & the global far right, 'The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments', Katherine Harvey's superb 'Medieval Guide to Healthy Living' & more coming @reaktionbooks.bsky.social reaktionbooks.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 8h

Francisco de Zurbarán! Great program!

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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 1d

Interview in Berliner Zeitung about the Gaza genocide, german media bias, the german "Staatsräson" and its consequnces, the antisemitism discourse, boycotts, and apartheid.

www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gese...

Michael Barenboim: „Juden wird in Deutschland keine Meinungsvielfalt zugestanden“

Im Interview spricht der renommierte Musiker über Antisemitismus, deutsche Doppelmoral und warum jüdische Stimmen, die Solidarität mit Gaza und Kritik an Israels Krieg zeigen, kaum Gehör finden.

www.berliner-zeitung.de

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 8h

The thread of which the quoted posts are part of gives an overview that makes me want to listen to it immediately. I really know nothing, it seems:

William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 8h

296. Ottoman Gaza: Gunpowder Conquests and Rising Nationalism
Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/C5SB9KLqwpgJ...

296. Ottoman Gaza: Gunpowder Conquests & Rising Nationalism (Part 6)

Podcast Episode · Empire · 05/10/2025 · 54m

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 8h

I should definitely read a book about the history of the region around Gaza given how little I know. This series of the Empire Podcast is such a useful introduction if you know as "much" as I do:

William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 8h

Our Gaza series continues with Episode 6...

OTTOMAN GAZA

Through gunpowder conquest, the Ottomans ruled over Gaza from the 1500s to the early 1900s. How did they shape the region?
linktr.ee/empirepoduk

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 8h

... I didn't know she was a bookseller herself!

"Yeah, being a bookseller, I’m always confronting inspectors as they try to check my bookstore for illegal books, so it’s obvious that The Book Censor’s Library was inspired by those actual inspectors in my actual bookstore."

“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa—Erik Noonan

Anglophone audiences first encountered the Kuwaiti novelist, publisher, and bookseller Bothanya Al-Essa through excerpts of her 2004 novel A Soundless Collision (trans. Chris Bredin), published in …

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 8h

"The Book Censor's Library" by Bothayna al-Essa was a great read for me and it's so shockingly timely. I've read it a second time recently and found it even more pertinent for our times.
This interview was interesting because I don't know much about her, for example ...

Book cover of "The Book Censor's Library" by Bothayna al-Essa

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 8h

Wow, I never thought I'd admire the design of a pan!!

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks for sharing this!

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 9h

Satiriker haben wirklich nichts mehr zu tun bei uns, die Witze schreiben sich selbst. Wenn ich bedenke, dass wir von dieser Regierung erwarten, dass sie den Aufstieg des Faschismus verhindert, wird mir ganz schlecht.

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 9h

The Race to Save a Medieval Palestinian Library

Ryan Byrnes on the Khalidi Family’s Battle to Protect Their Library From Ultra-Orthodox Settlers

lithub.com/the-race-to-...

#books #libraries

Khalidi Library, from the opening c. 1900. From right: Hajj Raghib al-Khalidi, Sheikh Taher al-Jaza’ireh (from Damascus), Sheikh Musa Shafiq al-Khalidi, Sheikh Khalil al-Khalidi, Sheikh Muhammad al-Habbal (from Beirut)

Costumes and characters, etc. Mohammedan sheikhs and effendies in front of Bibboth Khaldieh, Jerusalem

https://loc.gov/pictures/resource/matpc.06804/

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you for sharing this, I liked the Book Censor's Library a lot. It's such an important topic, I wish there were more translations.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 1d

That's one elegant bird!

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 5d

As someone who kind of wrote a book on it, let me share the number one sign someone is lying to you about politics:

When they claim that, through some unspecified alchemy, paradise and prosperity can be achieved through suffering exclusively by other people.

John Darwin Kurc @kurc.com · 5d

From DHS. State Run Media.

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 2d

This is the loveliest comment I've ever received!

(It also hints at the existence of rabbit holes into which I regularly fall because of an astounding lack of discipline...)

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 2d

I really loved this, thank you for writing it! Your photos are great, too, that must have been an exhibition I would have enjoyed a lot.

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 2d

I enjoyed this blog post on Japanese colours from the Heian period a lot. I didn't know what "kasane" is and it's so well explained here:

Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 2d

I've been working on this piece since last month! Please enjoy a dive into magnificent natural colours from Heian Japan, just published on #Caravanserai.
majnouna.substack.com/p/kasane

Kasane

The most refined art of wearing the seasons

majnouna.substack.com

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 2d

Didn't we lead ourselves to believe that Heidegger et al. were some unfortunate exceptions? That generally intellectual work with all the intellectual tools thinkers use in their work would provide some immunity against the worst stupidities? Illusions crumble, that's for sure.

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 2d

Herta Müller, Elfriede Jelinek's blind spots are of racist nature. Intellectual sophistication and fine writing are no shields to bigotry of a fundamental nature.

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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 2d

Danke fürs Teilen, das ist superwichtig! (Ich will gar nicht zugeben, wie lange ich Visegrad24 nicht durchschaut habe ...)

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