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sjhaydari
sis says 'your people' as if I'm not a Kurd. I tried being humble but awai amn krditm to help my people, niwat nakrdia. You hide behind your phone and
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Wabi Sabi جاوید
ryder_bey
Fakhri Pasha - The Defender of MadinahFakhri Pasha or Umar Fakhr ud-Din Pasha (1868–1948) was the commander of Ottoman army and governor of Medina from 1916 to 1919. He was
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Bubba Rogowski
RogowskiBubba
The white #slavetrade was the business of #Frankish and #Jewish merchants.#Prague was a significant #castration center!https://www.academia.edu/12942732/A_new_Muslim_source_on_the_Hungarians_in_the_second_half_of_tenth_century_CHRONICA_SZEG
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dasini
bazinbar
The relationship between Assyrians and Yezidis — a thread: A Christian chronicle at the beginning of the 19th century mentions how the Yezidi princes traditionally paid a solemn annual visit
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Claire
ClaireRedacted
Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.Between 1894 and 1924, the number of Christians in Asia Minor fell from some 3-4 million to just tens of thousands—from 20% of the area’s
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Irkutyanin
Irkutyanin1
Going to be reading more McMeekin Probably the best construction of WW1 that I have yet heard. McMeekin’s take on Russian border insecurity and insecurity as imperial growth as new
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Van der Vaal ™
JB1O1_
#MahatmaGandhi #GandhiJayanti Gandhi & Khilafat movement:In 1919, post World War 1, Ottomans which had fought the war on the axis side along with Germany suffered defeat at the
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Justin Stearns
kaohu11
Off the top of my head thread on (modern) scholars of plague in the Middle East (apologies in advance/add more!) Starting with Michael Dols, who wrote the first comprehensive survey
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Fidato
tequieremos
“The Radical Changes Atatürk'e brought under the garb of Secularism”1. An old Turkish word used for pagan Turkic deities, replaced the customary Allah. Turkish call to prayer replaced the traditional
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BlueprintAfric
blueprintafric
Before King Ahmed of Ottoman went to war, he locked his wife (the beautiful Queen) in a private room & gave the key to his best friend Mousa & said:
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Hind Makki
HindMakki
Earlier today, my buddy Eman and I had a super fun conversation about foreign-origin words we use in our Arabic dialects (Egyptian for her, Sudanese for me) and why maybe
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Samantha Power
SamanthaJPower
Beginning in 1915, the Ottoman Empire perpetrated a genocide, killing 1.5 million Armenians. For decades, American leaders did not acknowledge this fact, due to pressure from Turkey. Until today.Thank you
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Το Ρωμέικο. (Romeiko)
Reaping1821
April 23, 1821. Battle of Alamana. The army of Omer Vryoni forces into retreat Panourgias (600 men) & Diovouniotis (400 men). The army Kiose Mehmet arrives and joins Omer Vryoni.
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Harout 🇦🇲
charutsyun
The #ArmenianGenocide did not begin nor end in 1915In the 1890s, Sultan Hamid II, in efforts to maintain power during the collapsing Ottoman Empire, ordered the systemic massacre of Christians,
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Dokuz Tuğlu 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰
DokuzTugluKagan
Armenians revolted against the Ottoman state of which they were citizens. They attacked and killed the Turks together with the Russian army in the WW1. Therefore the Ottoman state, deport
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Selin Ugurtas
uselin
Thank you all for your comments on my @Newlinesmag piece. I want to respond to criticism that I focused on Muslim feminists to the exclusion of Armenian (and other) feminists,
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