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I took this photo last month in Kulob, Tajikistan. This kind of embroidery called Chakan is widespread in this Central Asian country and is part of UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list. Maliks, Nizoramo and Sharafnisa learned these splendid, complex handicraft from their mothers and grandmothers and taught it to their daughters. More and more robots, computers and machines will take our jobs, so will these fabuolous handicrafts like Chakan survive? That’s impossible to predict. I personally feel privileged that I can still witness these traditions and share it with you.

#tajikistan #photography #wanderlust #unesco

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Mahal Wak is an award-winning actress and activist. I photographed her last week, in Kabul, Afghanistan.As an actress, she loves to play roles dressed in traditional Afghan outfits. If you look at the Afghan jewelleries, dresses or carpets you would see some of the most colourful and playful motifs. That’s the real Afghan spirit, but over 40 years of war have been putting it to the test.Through her work, Mahal wants to bring that spirit back while sending some light in the bitter lives of Afghan people. In a country devastated by war, in a city were horrific bombing attacks and target killings occur every week, there are still corageous people like Mahal who chose to stay, believing in a better future and standing up for it.

#afghanistan #photography #portrait #badass women

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Kurdistan for beginners👌

#kurdistan #maps

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8 Ways to Carve Turkey.

by u/expatdoctor

More stereotype maps >>

#turkey #maps

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تو ماه پیشانی چرا در آسمانم نیستی وای

Tu mah peshani chera dar aasmanam nisti

Oh moon like face, why aren't you in my sky

#farsi #langblr #poetry #persian

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In Persian, 'companion' is 'ham-dam' meaning 'one you breathe with.'

#langblr #farsi #persian

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Wiktionary helpfully suggests the etymology could be related to ‘cream’ or ‘going in a certain direction’. Thanks I guess.

I’m tolerating an awful lot here but this new idea that ‘kayak’ actually means ‘ski’ is TOO MUCH. Get your language under control, Turkish people.

#langblr #language learning #students problems #turkish #wtf

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On this day, 28 May 2013 during the Turkish Occupy Gezi protests, the “woman in red”, Ceyda Sungur, was pepper sprayed by police, which became the defining photo of the movement. The protests began against development of Gezi Park in Istanbul but transformed into a national movement against the increasing authoritarianism of the right-wing government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. A university worker, Sungur didn’t want notoriety, saying “a lot of people who were at the park and they were also tear-gassed… There is not (a) difference between them and I.” She was subsequently arrested for “provoking people to disobey laws”, although the following year the charges were dismissed. This is an excellent eyewitness blog published during the protests: https://libcom.org/blog/rootlesscosmopolitan https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1726711730847303/?type=3

#turkey #gezi park #history

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Romantic Nicknames in #Persian! 💗 PS: Learn Persian with the best FREE online resources, just click here https://www.persianpod101.com/?src=tumblr_special_infographic_romantic-names_image_052721

#persian #langblr #farsi

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Two Iranian boys separating saffron by plucking the stigma out from it's flower.

#iran #photography #portrait #saffron

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some French words that Turkish spells logically

chateau -> şato

chauffeur -> şoför

habillé -> abiye

tableau -> tablo

saucisse -> sosis

ascenseur -> asansör

ampoule -> ampul

fréquence -> frekans

cirque -> sirk

framboise -> frambuaz

feutre -> fötr

jaquette -> ceket*

hôtel -> otel

cancer -> kanser

maquillage -> makyaj

phoque -> fok

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*the /dj/ sound is represented by the letter “c” in Turkish, whereas the letter “j” in Turkish represents the /zh/ sound more similar to the French “j”

and “ş” equals the “sh” sound

these words are pronounced exactly the same or almost exactly the same in Turkish as they are pronounced in French

#langblr #turkish #cursed content #thanks i hate it #put those useless vowels back!

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“نه دام است و نه زنجیر هــمه بــسته چــراییـم؟ There are no traps nor chains Then why are we all imprisoned?”

— Rumi

#rumi #langblr #persian #farsi #mood

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When you randomly see a long text in the language you’re studying and you recognize a word -

#langblr #language learning #turkish #farsi #persian

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#iran #photography #wanderlust

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A weaver demonstrates her skill at weaving Turkish carpets, Cappadocia, Turkey, George Steinmetz.

#turkey #tradition #photography

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فلسطین

Transcription: felestin

Meaning: Palestine

#palestine #langblr #farsi #persian

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Just spent thirty minutes making a chicken chart of family members, now realize there are approximately 720 markers, pencils, highlighters and brushes in my house but the two XS pens in distinct colours I use to make language notes seems to have been eaten by the Unseen. Great.

#langblr #farsi #persian #turkish #also why are there so many words