#farsi calligraphy

[farsi-calligraphy]

A wonderful way to display the names in your family! Perhaps a surprise gift for No Ruz? Click the link above to fill out an order form for your personalized family calligraphy, or email [email protected]  Persian / Farsi calligraphy by S J Thomas

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[sewercentipede]

tattoos of persian and arabic calligraphy

۱‌‌‌ ۲ ۳ ۴‌ ۵ ۶ ۷‌ ۸ ۹

#tattoos #Farsi #persian #Arabic #mb #mmb #up #words #calligraphy #note to self

[bootlesserrand]

Butterfly poem by Hafez w calligraphy 

#poetry #calligraphy #farsi

[noinou]

just realized i might be cool???

#like i know how to program and cook and bake and do calligraphy and watercolor and can sort of draw #right now i do archery and i learned the basics of a bunch of martial arts (muay thai + kung fu + tae kwon do) #and i learned the basics of fencing #i used to shave with a straight razor and i sharpen my own knives #im an ok rock climber and tree climber #i did folk dancing for 2 years #i learned basic sailing and fishing and know how to swim #ive done 2 50km hikes and was on my highschool's rugby team #i tutor people in math and python #i can read ipa #and can sorta read hangeul cyrillic and chinese and farsi #i know the basics of building a fire #i built a giant chickenwire sculpture of a fish once #my friend liked one of my paintings so much its hanging in her house #i know how to book bind and taught it to my sister #she and i built a bookshelf from scratch together #i have a jacket i made myself out of scraps #i can make a brooch in less than 5 minutes #i have operated a nuclear reactor #one time i freaked out my professor by being able to recite the first bit of the pirates of panzance modern general song without fucking up #i can do the thing where you open a bottle by hitting it on a corner #oh i forgot i did capoeira and fencing for a bit! #oh i recently learned how to wrap gifts without using any tape! #ok this has gotten really long #im not doing this to show off or anything #this is genuinely the first time i realized some of this stuff might be impressive to people #since ive got this whole jack of all trades master of none thing going on #except i hang out with a shit ton of masters of one #but like fuck dude #was it kurt vonnegut who had the quote about like the things you do dont stop mattering when you put them down

[wherefeelingsland]

Persian calligraphy poem art Drawstring Bag |"Your face is the sun of the world"-Sa'di | lovely bag, persian patterns, persian poems, farsi

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[mosquitogirl]

farsi calligraphy poem, design by the client’s father

#drawings

[anintelligentoctopus]

Check out the attempt at Farsi calligraphy I did for my mum's birthday card

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[lgbtqiamuslimpedia]

A Jihad for Love (2008)

Director - Parvez Sharma

Producer - Sandi Simcha Dubowski

Cinematography - Parvez Sharma, Berke Baş,David W. Leitner

Writer - Javed Haider Zaidi

Cast - Imam Muhsin Hendricks,Arsham Parsi,Maryam,Abdellah,Mazen,Ferda,Qasim,Ahsan,Amir,Mojtaba,Kiymet,Sana,Maha,Pedram Abdi (Payam)

Languages - Arabic,Farsi,Urdu,Bengali, Hindi,English,French,German,English,Turkish,etc

Genre - •LGBTQ •Islam •Documentary

Year of Release - 21 May,2008

Box office - $105,651

Awards - •Best Documentary Award,MIX BRASIL •Best Documentary, Image+Nation Film Festival •Best Documentary,The Tri-Continental Film Festival,India • GLAAD Media Award •Teddy Award,etc

A Jihad for Love (preceded by a short film called In the Name of Allah) is an award-winning international documentary on Homosexuality & Islam.It took total six years to make this groundbreaking documentary.Parvez Sharma took the risk to film this documentary in most dangerous country (like Islamic Republic of Iran,Iraq, Saudi Arabia,Pakistan,Egypt).Homosexuality is a punishable crime in most Muslim World.

The work that Sharma started with this film has become a staple in many books on Islam and at U.S. University libraries.The website Faith in Equality put it at number 9 in a list of LGBT films about faith.IMDb rates the film at 13 on its list of 58 titles under the category of "Best documentaries on religion, spirituality & cults".The film first premiered at the TIFF in 2007, and has been screened to great acclaim at several film festivals around the world.The film went on to win 15 other international awards.

Plot

At starting it shows a glimpse of Islam across the globe.The film first featured Hendrick Muhsin, a South African,Pakistani Gay & Muslim.He is also the first Out Gay Imam of Africa.Filmmaker Parvez got into the deep of Hendicks's personal life struggles,his understanding of Islam & reconciliation of intersecting identities.

Mazen, an Egyptian effeminate muslim was arrested in 2001, in a gay nightclub named Queen Boat.He was beaten,forced to stand trial twice on "debauchery" charges & sentenced to a total of 4 years in prison, where he was raped.He eventually moved to Paris.Mazen also has left his families & friends in Egypt.

Sana is a Black Lesbian refugee, & a victim of FGM.She has a deeper understanding of Islam & told Parvez that Queerness is not against Islam.Sana didn't have any kind of sexual relation with any women.But she had intimate loving relations with women.Like others, she came to France as a refugee.Sana befriend with Maryam & Mazen.

Maryam is Moroccan-born queer womxn who lives in Paris.Her girlfriend Maha lives in Egypt.Both lovers met each other on Bint-al Nas - a meeting site for Arab LBTQ womxn.Maryam still believes that she deserves punishment for her lesbian sexual relationship.Both have survived abusive marriages and can only share their love for each other in private.Maryam & Maha go on a shared journey of search and discovery of female homosexuality.In Al-Azhar, they discover an old bookstore where they find a copy of the Fiqh al-Sunnah(The Laws of the Prophet).In the heart of an ancient mosque in the Citadel,they discover beautiful Islamic calligraphy as they declare their impossible love for each other.

Amir, an Iranian gay shia who has respect for Imam Hosseini.He sacrificed his life for Allah & reconciling his muslim faith.While in Iran, he was persecuted under the charges of illicit sexual conduct,illicit mannerism & received 100 lashes.After being brutally beaten and tortured in the police custody.The judge also threatened Amir that he should be punished by stoning.However he was sentenced to flogging.He told Sharma that Allah helped him to escape this traumatic situation.He fled to Turkey as soon as well.There he met 3 gay refugees - Arsham,Payam,Mojtaba.Mojtaba, another (Persian) gay muslim who ran away from Iran,due to his same sex marriage ceremony in 2005.

Ferda & Kiymet are a happy couple in Turkiye.Kiymet belongs from a conservative family.In her early Kiymet's marriage was fixed with a man.Kiymet's marriage ended up at divorce.Then she found Ferda, her soulmate.Ferda's mom is very supportive & tolerant of sexuality.Ferda is a devout sufi queer muslim, who honors Rumi - a prominent sufi icon for both LGBTQ+ & Straight Muslims.

Ahsan & Qasim are queer platonic friends.Ahsan is a Sunni Muslim & Qasim is a Shia Muslim.Both men, belongs from poor backgrounds do not adopt the western peronae of ‘gay’ and instead rely on vernacular terms.Ahsan & Qasim are part of transvestite,transgender community called Zenana,Kothi in Northern India.Most of these community hide themselves from public.Ahsan,Qasim find a safe space in his community.While Qasim is struggling with his sexuality in heteronormative society.

The filmmaker also documented the diverse tolerance of sexuality in sufi traditions (Pakistan,India & Turkey).

Is it the first film on Islam & Homosexuality?

''A Jihad for Love'' is called world's 1st film on Islam & Homosexuality.A Jihad for Love would be an international feature documentary film rather than world's first film on LGBT muslims.However there are several films that focused on LGBTQ muslim or Queerness in Islam.For Example:

Road to Love (2001)

Act of Faith (2002)

Haremde dört kadin (1965)

Hammam al-Malatily (1973)

Köçek (1975)

Ihtiras Firtinasi (1984)

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Marcides (1993)

Istanbul Beneath My Wings (1996)

Hamam (1997)

Lola & Billy the Kid (1999)

Production

Bismillah (In the name of Allah) was considered as an early working title for this documentary.Among muslims,the word Bismillah is very auspicious & used before beginning actions,speech,writing.But the tittle was not considered as the final title of this film due to controversy.

A Jihad for Love is produced by Halal Films, in association with the Sundance Documentary Film Fund,Channel 4 (UK),ZDF (Germany),Arte (France-Germany),Logo (US) & SBS Australia.The director & producer Parvez Sharma & co-producer Sandi Dubowski raised more than a million dollars over a 6 years period to make the film.

In an interview with The NY Times,Parvez Sharma said that he "would shoot touristy footage on the first 15 minutes & the last 15 minutes of a tape", with interviews for documentary in between, to avoid having his footage seized at customs.He compiled 400 hours of footage from a dozen countries ranging from Iraq to Pakistan to the UK.The nature of the work placed him at considerable personal risk.He adopted hardcore guerrilla film-making tactics,pretending to be a tourist in one country,a worker for an AIDS charity in another country.Wherever he went,he asked his queer friends to keep copies of footage and destroy the tapes once he had successfully smuggled the masters out of the country.

During his filmmaking Parvez traveled several countries including Pakistan, Iraq, India, Bangladesh, Egypt, USA, UK, Turkey, France, Saudi Arabia, South Africa,[...].

Interviews

In an interview with NY Times magazine,Parvez Sharma said,"Being gay and Muslim myself,I knew that this film had to be about us all coming out— as Muslims. It's about claiming the Islam that has been denied to us." With a target audience of "faithful Muslims," he undertook a variety of outreach tactics, including leafleting mosques,blanketing MySpace,screening in Astoria for 15 key progressive Muslim leaders.In an interview to Der Spiegel, Sharma explained the significance of the title: "I'm not looking at jihad as battle.I'm looking at the greater jihad in Islam, which is the jihad as the struggle with the self.I also thought it was really compelling to take a word that only has one connotation for most -- to take that, reclaim it and put it in the same phrase as love,which is universal.I really think it explains it very well.

Film Screening

A Jihad for Love first premiered in Toronto International Film Festival(TIFF) in September 2007.At its premier,the director was given a security guard for safety reasons.After this film festival A Jihad for Love got huge applaud internationally.A Jihad for Love film premiered as the opening film of Panorama Documente of the Berlin Film Festival in February 2008.

The film was screened in The Rio Film Festival,Brazil on September 2007,Morelia Film Festival,Mexico, on October 2007,The Sheffield DocFest on November 2007,London Gay & Lesbian Film Festival on March 2008,Melbourne International Film Festival on July 2008,Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival on March 2008,etc.A Jihad for Love's first premier in African continent was The Out in Africa Film Festival in Johannesburg and Cape Town,November 2007. On April,2008 A Jihad for Love film was successfully screened at Istanbul International Film Festival.It was the first time that the film allowed to screen in a muslim-majority country.Film also screened in Q! Film Festival of Indonesia.Although singapore banned the film from festival in 2008 due to its sensitive subject.

Popularity

A Jihad for Love film's sale and broadcast on NDTV, South Asia's largest network in 2008 would have a "remarkable" impact on this LGBTQ cause. "NDTV's broadcast has in effect made the film available to over one billion viewers in India,Bangladesh,Pakistan, & large portions of the Middle East and Africa.The various distributors and their Total Rating Points in European television, the Indian/South-Asian sale with its claimed footprint of 15 billion viewers, the theatrical release & the purportedly large numbers of Netflix viewers made the filmmakers and the TRP experts arrive at a number of 8 million total viewers calculated over a period of four years for this documentary.

International Muslim Dialogue Project

Immediately after the film's theatrical launch around the USA,Parvez & Sandi launched the International Muslim Dialogue Project on 2008.The aim of the project was to organize screenings of the film in Muslim Capitals.Sharma called it the "Underground Network Model" of film distribution.He invented this model sending unmarked DVD's of the film with friends & colleagues to Muslim capitals across the world with full permission to sell pirated copies.Some of the boldest were Beirut,Cairo,Karachi,eight cities in Indonesia & Kuala Lumpur

The film was screened privately screened in Iran,Palestine,Bangladesh and Somalia.

#gay muslim #lgbtq muslim #homosexuality in islam #homosexual muslim #muslim gay #lesbianmuslim #lesbian muslim #arab #asian #qtpoc #documentary

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Worldbuilding | North African Livelihood, 1920

A Camel Plow Being Used In Algiers, Algeria, North Africa, In The Early 20th Century.

As a result of being situated so close to Europe, North Africa was majorly under Spanish or French rule during the early 20th century. The Moroccan protectorate itself was established in 1912, after the Entente Cordiale—a treaty concluded between France and Britain in 1904, which settled a number of hostilities between the two countries—and the Cameroons had been ceded to Germany in 1911. Both acts together left France free to divide the country with Spain, which took over the Rif Mountains in the north and the border region with the Spanish Sahara in the south. Libya was similarly invaded by Italy in 1911, but the prolonged resistance of the Sanūsiyyah in Cyrenaica denied the Italian Fascists control of the country until 1931.

During this time, art schools in Egypt focused on academic, Renaissance-based training; the Orientalist and post-Impressionist imagery of the French settlers overshadowed indigenous modernist ones by Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian artists. European schools and galleries featured romanticised imagery of the local landscape.

Following World War I, North Africa was swept by a tide of nationalist and anticolonial movements; artists and intellectuals struggled to define national culture in the face of their particular histories and colonial realities. Debate among Egyptian intellectuals and writers centered on building a secular nation-state based on European models with an emphasis on education, industrialisation, and the emancipation of women. The Egyptian national government supported art institutions and sent graduates of the school, both men and women, to study in Europe, making Egypt a regional nexus for artistic innovation and training. Art as a creative discourse among modern Egyptians found its purpose at first in the nation’s reformist aspirations; intellectuals and artists were seen as best qualified to define the new features of modern Egypt. Thus, the movement for independence in Egypt accelerated.

In contrast to Egyptian artists, who benefit from the support of a national government and local patronage, other North African artists were marginalized, receiving limited training or support. The French promoted North African self-taught artists’ work in France as the art of an underdeveloped nation. They were more interested in reviving traditional Moroccan crafts. Despite their proximity to Europe, North African artists did not adopt contemporary Western art and techniques. Early works by these artists followed academic styles, adaptations of illumination and miniature painting. Without access to modern art institutions, North African artists rejected the imposed Orientalist and Neoclassical modes; many moved to France, where they adopted the new trends in Abstract Expressionism and other contemporary styles, returning after independence to lead a new international art movement. In the post-independence period, calligraphy emerges within the realm of abstraction in this region, as well as in other Arab countries.

France’s harsh occupation in Algeria was a reflection of its conception of the country as an extension of itself; French replaced Arabic in all public schools, and indigenous history and culture were excluded from the curricula. Foreign occupation continued to fuel a growing secular movement for independence.

As a result of these influences, there were several languages spoken by the people of North Africa during this time. They were as follows;

Arabic

French

Hebrew

Farsi

Portuguese

Spanish

Swahili

Turkish

Twi

Additionally, there were a few more spoken by specific local communities;

Berber/Imazighen (with regional dialects)

Punic

African Romance

Lybic

Coptic

Nubian

Greek

With the exception of Imazighen languages and Nubian, the rest are considered extinct languages.

[noorink94]

سلام!

Are you Persian by chance? I saw some calligraphy on your blog that looks like Farsi 😁

وعليكم السلام

No I'm Saudi 🇸🇦

[farsi-calligraphy]

A couplet in Urdu by the poet Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869).

                غمِ ہستی کا اسد کس ہو جز مرگ علاج

                شمع ہر رنگ میں جلتی ہے سحر ہوتے تک

ġham-e hastī kā asad kis se ho juz marg ʿilāj shamʿa har rang meñ jaltī hai saḥar hote tak

It can be translated:

“For the grief of life, Asad*, what would be the cure, except death? A candle, in every condition or color, burns until the coming of dawn.”

*Asad: a self-reference to the poet.

The poet poses the conundrum: is there any cure for life except death?

The candle burns in every condition and color—as we do in life, burning, singed, inflamed, consumed; burning with pain, sorrow or anguish; alight with love or passion; inflamed with jealousy or rage; experiencing every color of happiness or sorrow. What can end this burning but the guttering of the candle at the end of the night. Dawn, the extinguisher, brings an end to the candle’s colorful conditions: a death. Left unsaid is the arrival at dawn of a new and brighter light.

Urdu calligraphy by S J Thomas

#urdu urdupoetry ghalib mirzaghalib persiancalligraphy urducalligraphy farsicalligraphy sufi sufipoetry candle life liberation #urdu #urdu poetry #ghalib #mirza ghalib #persian calligraphy #urdu calligraphy #farsi calligraphy #sufi #sufi poetry #candle #life #liberation

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more intangible wealth of information

One is taken into the rabbit hole of different cultures how they share knowledge, language, gestures, food preparations, sharing, and dancing though performances, music, gatherings and communal festivals. 

Written language is going through lot of change and challenges, as we have laptops, internet and computers the written notes,  or writing on papers and reading books is all going through lot of change... special schools have been set up for calligraphy writing and it is mention in ‘’Intangible cultural wealth of Farsi, Arabic, Georgian scripts... One can observe how written words are shaped in a way that it looks attractive and pleasing to the eye, so also it did not stop there but it was to bring beauty to every aspect of life, Dressing beautifully not only the written words but to speak eloquently and sound lovely as well.  

Leading to flattery, insincere, praise falsely.. leading to confusion and yet one cannot be happy with plain truth...  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q3DFyrljSo&t=76s

making of cous cous ,makes me feel hungry, so much delicious food 

As any word written in any hand writing with sincerity it is loaded with meaning and has an effect. Tracy Amin works, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger and Glen Ligon works are all very influential weather written in print or in bad hand writing by Tracy Amin which is again has the human quality of imperfection yet the desire to say the things which one feels.

[sun-shower]

Persian proverb: 

از محبت خارها گل مى شود 

Love transforms thorns into roses. 

Calligraphy by S J Thomas

#persian #calligraphy #farsi #love #rose

[wherefeelingsland]

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"Your face is the sun of the world"- Sa'di

Design and calligraphic artwork by me. Text from a part of a poem by sa'adi, the great Iranian poet. Hope you like it. 

#findyourthing #design #art #poem #saadi #sadi #persian #farsi #arework #illustration #calligraphy #sun #lyric #text #daily qoute #love poetry #love qoute #tshirt #gift #iDea