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By far my favourite covers for classic lit

Picked these up from a quaint bookshop in Cairo full of antique, rare, and used books earlier this year.

My hand holding up the illustrated cover of a book entitled: Turkish fairy tales and folk tales

My hand holding up the cover of an english-translated book: Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi

War Doctor is the memoir of a surgeon who dedicated his life to humanitarian medicine. The Crisis Caravan is a critical look at the Aid Industry and its biggest mistakes. Notes from Death’s Door is another memoir from a doctor working with MSF, on one of their most challenging missions.

Some books I’ve been loving lately

The cover of War Doctor: Surgery on the Frontlines, by David Nott — a male doctor sits next to a little Black boy with a face mask and surgical cap beneath the title of the book and the author “David Nott”

Some books I’ve been loving lately

The cover of The Crisis Caravan by Linda Polman

The cover of Field Notes from Death’s Door by Katie Treble

Euronews @euronews.com · 12mo ago

Update: due to a dramatic upheaval in my life, I have decided to rebrand. I’ve retired my penname & will now be using my government name. I’m not entirely sure if I will be publishing under this name just yet, but I do feel like it is time for a change to compliment my new writing goals & projects.

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.

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Heather Rose Jones @heatherrosejones.bsky.social · last yr.

OK, ok, I need to stop being coy and self-effacing. I am DELIGHTED that my work in making lesbian history accessible for authors of historical fiction is being recognized in books that used my work. My ultimate goal is to never again hear an author of a sapphic historical say "There's no sources."

Heather Rose Jones@heatherrosejones.bsky.social · last yr.

Just finished listening to the audiobook of Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti and had a startling and pleasant surprise in the acknowledgements. IYKYK.

Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · last yr.

Harsh but fair

What your favorite Latin script says about you: all examples are labeled "you are a nerd"

Snippety Snippet From my short story — A Cabinet of Curiosities

Unlike the sparkling limelights of the showman, the world of a private collector is full of secrets. Specimens lay scattered in the deep crevices of the earth, to be picked up and gathered in cages and shelves. The provenance of such objects is never without doubt.
Much akin to his peers, the late Lord Frederick Blackwell was a naturalist, an anatomist, and a thief.

Snippety Snippet From my short story — A Cabinet of Curiosities

I’m pretty cute sometimes <3

Selfie of me in a black top, with my hair down

Selfie of me in a block top, with my hair down, smiling

A late eid mubarak from me <3

Selfie of me wearing a floral sundress, with my hair down and standing in front of an open door

Another selfie wearing the same floral sundress while smiling

Yasmine Core ☀️🍊

Mediterranean tiles and a woman with a stethoscope and coffee and me in traditional dress and some decorative flowers and pastilla dish and a blonde woman from a french film and tinkerbell from peter pan

Selfie of me with my hair down, wearing a multicoloured top

Selfie of me in the same multicoloured top, smiling with my tongue between my teeth and doing a peace sign

Haven’t posted a snippet in a while From my short—a cabinet of curiosities

Her marriage had been born out of love—of the misshapen kind—but ended in tragedy. For her late husband, may god have mercy on him, saw her as a fleeting curiosity of his own. An exotic little bird from the Orient, a passing passion. By the epilogue of their partnership, her wedding band had begun to feel more like a cage.

Eid Mubarak Day 1 and Day 2 🌸

Selfie of me by the window in my room, wearing a traditional caftan and big diamond earrings, with mu hair down

Selfie of me in a room, in front of a set of curtains, with my hair down and wearing a chiffon tie-dye top and golden hoop earrings and a matching choker

Somber over the uncertainties of a possible relationship and then I clicked on tiktok, saw that my girlies with albinism are making groups online, and felt a surge of joy that is completely unreal. This is the one community that can do me no wrong. I love them so much.

Opening this app after a whirlwind week and a half that has turned your world upside down is so disorienting because it feels like meeting up with a friend who’s missed everything

Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 2y ago

Literally only Paris Paloma and my books can heal my weak broken heart snd soothe my worries.

Chronicles of Africa's most powerful Women sovereigns: Amanirenas, Njinga, and Eleni. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/chronicles...

Chronicles of Africa's most powerful Women sovereigns: Amanirenas, Njinga and Eleni.

Less than six years following their victory over the armies of Queen Cleopatra in Egypt in 31 BC, the Romans marched their forces south to conquer the kingdom of Kush, which was also ruled by a Queen,...

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A PhD in the history of the early modern Mediterranean 🥺

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