#arab culture

[hussyknee]

Al-Ajaweed Band is a group made up of Black/Afro-Palestinians from the Baq'a Refugee Camp in Jordan. They’re known for being some of the best at dabka!

(linked because the tunnel of quote tweets has more dance videos)

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Please give their page the views they deserve.

#to use an aave term: gag city #dabke #someone do a video description please #palestinian dance #palestinian culture #people of palestine #afro-palestinians #black power #palestinian refugees #free palestine #palestinian resistance #jordan #knee of huss #arab culture #arab dance

[a-sketchy-jedi]

talia in arab clothing 😈

#talia al ghul #fanart #damian wayne #robin #nightwing #dc fan art #dc #brutalia #talia and damian #dick grayson #my art #arab culture #digital illistruation #digital painting

[wohnderstruck]

"جلس معها أربعون دقيقة كان يستمع لكل شيء في حديثها، وعندما قررت الذهاب سألته: نسيت أن أسألك كم عُمرك؟ فقال لها: "أربعون دقيقة.""

“He sat with her for forty minutes and was listening to everything she said. When she decided to leave she told him, “I forgot to ask you how old you are?” He said, “forty minutes.””

- Land of Zicola by Amr Abdelhamid

#arabic #arabic poetry #arabic quotes #arabic books #reading #palestine #free palestine #gaza #arab culture #gaza strip #save gaza #arab #free gaza #freepalastine🇵🇸 #freepalestine #amr abdelhamid #land of zicola #novel

[jaffababe]

Traditional Arab earrings, necklaces, and headpieces from the Arabian Gulf (UAE, Qatar, Oman)

#west asia #middle east #asia #Arab gulf #Arabian gulf #traditional jewelry #gold jewelry #Arab culture #uae #Qatar #oman #united arab emirates

[arabbalad]

Traditional Fashion

#arab #marocco #libyan #love #traditional #fashion #beautiful #aesthetic #saudi arabia #traditional fashion #makeup #eye makeup #cat eye #tumblr #tumblrpic #women #woman #white #tumblraesthetic #arab culture #arabic #arab luxury #abaya #white abaya #gold

[moonlayl]

I know this post is late, but one comment i saw made quite a bit about the moon knight finale is “why didn’t Marc and Layla kiss????”

and aside from the whole “i love that we’re shown couples can be physically affectionate outside of kissing” response, there’s another more probably reason:

In the middle east, making out is one type of display of affection that is NOT done in front of others, especially in public. It’s considered a special intimate act that’s only supposed to be shared between the couple themselves. (fic writers please take note!!) 

Not even during the wedding. There is no “you may kiss the bride” at the wedding. (I mean they usually kiss the foreheads or hands, but not the lips)

It’s a cultural thing. Kissing isn’t bad, it’s just something that’s supposed to be personal, private, and intimate. Not even in their own homes in front of other family members. 

I know many won’t understand, because that’s clearly not the case in Western society, but I can’t stress enough that it’s less “kissing is bad” and more “good intimate loving acts like kissing are private” please respect that

In the actual show, Layla and Steven did kiss, but they were secluded in an open space with no one around for miles and no one saw. 

In the finale, Marc and Layla were among many other people, and Layla herself is an Arab woman so it makes sense that those two got used to hugs, and little wholesome touches, instead of kisses in public. 

I mean, even when Layla thought Marc was dead, she kissed his forehead. (usually scenes like that have them kiss the dead person on the lips, and I was 100% expecting that). During the boat scene, they hold hands, and even later that same episode, they hold hands again. Clearly touches like that are their love language in and out of public and I think that’s beautiful. 

#moon knight #layla el faouly #marc spector #steven grant #marc x layla #layla x marc #layla x steven #steven x layla #moonscarab #moonlayl #marvel #mcu #arab #arab culture

[desimonewayland]

Van Leo, Self-Portrait, 1945

Arab Image Foundation, Beirut

From exhibiton titled Becoming Van Leo

#van leo #cairo #1940s #photography #self portrait #arab culture

[cardigansbell]

#culture #saudi arabia #middle east #love #peace #kuwait #iraq #united arab emirates #islam #arab #girlblogging #girl interrupted #gold #musk #oud #arab culture #fashion

[tortiefrancis]

minecraft noor!!! the past few weeks have been, honestly, pretty hard on me and i wanted to just do something to celebrate arab culture (since i have lebanese heritage)

anyways, had this headcanon for a while, made something with it: arab noor! they're wearing traditional syrian clothing specifically (let me know if i did it justice)

[ ID: A digital, stylized drawing of Noor from Minecraft, a thin person with medium tone skin, brown eyes, a pointy nose, an unibrow, and long, dark brown dreadlocks. They wear a golden earring on one ear and two on the other, a white shirt, a short, red vest with golden embroidery with triangle and plant motifs, a big, fabric belt in red, dark red and yellow, and black, baggy pants. They grin, looking to the right. Next to them is a white sheep. Background is transparent. /End ID ]

#sam.arts #sam.interests #minecraft #minecraft noor #minecraft art #minecraft fanart #syria #syrian culture #arab #west asia #levant #arab culture #minecraft noor art #minecraft noor fanart #art #artblr #krita #fanart #digital art #digital artists #artists on tumblr #artists of tumblr

[his-heart-hymns]

The U.S. government supplies offensive weapons worth billions of dollars to Israel so that they can continue their genocide. Meanwhile, the same U.S. government expresses concern regarding the air defense systems deal between Russia,Russian backed wagner group and Hamas, Hezbollah.The Russian air defense systems are very dangerous because they will make it difficult for Israel and the U.S. air force to carry out bombings of civilians.America can fund war criminals to ensure a smooth operation of their 'genocide machinery' but heaven forbid someone tries to protect civilians with those Russian air defense systems.

#hypocrisy #perfect american war strategy #priorities #gaza genocide #free gaza #free palestine #israel #iran #america #american heagemony #saudi arabia #war #desiblr #arab #arab culture

[wohnderstruck]

The little girls of Gaza by Sally Samir

#palestine #free palestine #arab culture #gaza #save gaza #gaza strip #free gaza #arab #freepalastine🇵🇸 #freepalestine #art #digital art #liberation #resistance

[angeldoll04]

@androphilia:Qaher Harhash photographed by Sarah Blais, 2018

#qaher harhash #sarah blais #arabic #arab culture #arab man #arab men #vogue men #men in art #men fashion

[anakinsafterlife]

I was just looking at the cast list for Lawrence of Arabia and it is mind-boggling to me that of all the top-billed actors for the movie, only *one* was a native Arabic speaker, and that was Omar Sharif. Omar was Egyptian, meaning he was from an Arabized culture, not an ethnically Arab country. Alec Guiness (!) played Prince Faisal of *Iraq and Syria* in this movie and said that he learned his Arab accent from Omar. But Prince Faisal was an ethnically Arab ruler, born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Ottoman Turkey, who spoke an entirely different dialect of Arabic. Modern Egyptian Arabic is heavily influenced by a number of foreign languages, as well as Ancient Egyptian and later Coptic, while, as a ruler and a descendent of the Prophet Mohamed, Faisal would certainly have spoken an Arabic very close to the classical language. There's no way Omar Sharif's accent sounded like the historical Faisal.

It just makes me crazy. I know it was very common in classic Hollywood for Western actors to play everyone, and even having Omar Sherif play a role was probably considered progressive, but it's all so strange and hodgepodge. In a way, it reminds me that no matter how hard we try to legitimize film and make it into historical fact, it's still just pantomime.

#films #film history #alec guinness #omar sharif #arab culture #arab history #arabic language #egypt #iraq #lawrence of arabia #saudi arabia

[granteaute]

المعمار النجدي في شبه الجزيرة العربية. 🐪🌴

Traditional Najdi (central Arabian) houses. 🌴🐪

#arab #arabian #khaleeji #middle east #saudi arabia #arabian peninsula #Arabian Gulf #arabic #Arab culture #Arab architecture #Culture #ethnic #mena #swana #heritage #tradition #عرب #العرب #شبه الجزيرة العربية #جزيرة العرب #الجزيرة العربية #الخليج العربي #الخليج #نجد #najd #Central Arabia #Eastern Arabia #east Arabia

[desimonewayland]

Van Leo, Self-Portrait, Monday, January 8, 1945

© The Rare Books and Special Collections Library at The American University in Cairo

From the exhibition Becoming Van Leo

#self portrait #van leo #photography #cairo #1940s #arab culture

[thearabloak06]

I really wish there was a queer arab character

Or show

Or movie

Or book

Or poem

Where like it shows the struggles of expecting both your culture and identity and ending up failling in love with both

I really don't wanna post this on my twt but oh my god I actually really really starve for at least a CHARACTER that is in the media now and I'm so tired of people saying "make your own" but I need it now

I wanna see silly edits with the character, I wanna see people loving it and more

I really sometimes wanna see my type be more there, I really just wanna see myself in a different form there

#queer arab #arab culture #queer #lgbtq community #movies #tv shows