Alifbépé ~ ا ب پ

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Sound track performed by Yo-Yo Ma: Bach’s Suite No. 1, BWV 1007 In G Major- Sarabande
Click here for links to the original art used in this sequence.
1 - 0:00 Archangel(Angel of the Golden Locks) Novgorod School, Russia 2nd half of the 12th c.
2 - 0:01 La Scapigliata(The Lady of the Dishevelled Hair) Da Vinci, Leonardo 1508
3 - 0:03 The Madonna […]

This film is dedicated to the great artists of Islam whose names are unrecorded.
The art critic and art lover, Waldemar Januszczak, sets out on an epic journey of discovery across the Muslim world from Central Asia, to the heart of the Middle East and beyond to reveal a world of awe-inspiring architecture, spectacular Islamic […]

Zhong Kui (Shoki), the Demon Queller, on a Donkey
Japanese, Edo period, 18th–19th century
I cannot take my eyes off this beautiful drawing. I can almost imagine it to be my portrait from a previous life, and remain pleasantly undecided if I can identify better with the rider or the donkey: both are sketched well enough to […]

Ruba’is by Hafiz
Calligrapher: Unknown
16th-17th centuries
Dimensions of Written Surface: 15 (w) x 25 (h) cm
Script: nasta’liq
This calligraphic fragment includes three iambic pentameter quatrains, or ruba’is, arranged in corresponding vertical and horizontal panels. The verses written diagonally in the upper right corner describe humans’ duplicity:
Yak sifat-i ‘ajab amad in ammara-ra / Bu al-’ajab ifrit-i mardum khwara-ra / […]

Fawad’s visit to Sukkur and its environs in June 2007; and his views in captions. Click an image above to enlarge it; click the album link below to view all thumbnails.

Sukkur, June 2007 - Fawad Khan

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Aftab’s visit to Copenhagen, Denmark in the first week of June 2007.
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København, June 2007 - Aftab Khan

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“Only in the Contemplation of Beauty is Human Life Worth Living” (Plato, Symposium 211d)
Right-click here and save the link to listen to this philosophy lecture by Alexander Nehamas in windows media audio format (wma~13.5MB).
Right-click here and save the link to watch this philosophy lecture by Alexander Nehamas in real media video format (rm~46MB).
Alexander Nehamas
Edmund N. […]

These photographs have been taken with the Nikon D40 and D40x digital cameras by Aftab, Fawad and Taimur. Clicking an image in the slideshow above with open it in larger size, whereas clicking the linked icon below will show thumbnails of all the images in this album. You can also mouseover the slideshow to access […]

This amusing article was sent to me by my friend Hassan Shahryar.
While I was friends with all writers, regardless of whether they were from the Progressive group or not, I was the closest to Ibne Insha. Whenever I published a new book, the publisher would gift me fifteen or twenty copies, some of which I […]

My brother Aftab shared with me his fond memories of Dr. Joseph Schildkraut today. Dr. Schildkraut had been his supervisor during his psychiatry residency at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in 1994-95.
In a letter to The New York Times in 1994, Dr. Schildkraut observed that depression in artists “may have put them in touch with […]

Afghanistan - Buddhism

N.B. The following statement was issued by the Asia Pacific Group of countries represented at UNESCO.
STATEMENT ON AFGHANISTAN
9 March 2001
Paris
Asia Pacific Group of countries represented at UNESCO expresses its strong condemnation of the edict issued by Taliban leaders of Afghanistan to destroy all statues in that country including the Bamiyan Buddhas. It is […]

I have known Pakistan Television and the later era of its miserable decline. As I observe TV channels proliferating like a plague, churning out the same sort of noxious pap that might serve as mindless intervals between elaborate advertisements respitefully featuring pretty girls, I feel like saying a few good things about PTV. I have […]

Paganini, Caprice No. 24 - classical guitar by Jie Li

A.Vivaldi-Concerto G dur—Allegro-Andante-Allegro performed byBilkent Guitar Trio Opera Place in Georgia (Turkish Guitarists)

Julian Bream - J.S Bach, Fugue from first violin sonata

Violin Sonata 4. mov. of BWV 996 - Adagio & Violin Partita BWV 1006
Andres Segovia

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Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916 - 2004)
Medicine 1962: find out more from Nobel Museum.
Download audio extract: date of recording 13.11.1962.
This recording dates from the year when Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins and James Watson received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the structure of DNA. The story began in 1953 when […]

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In Freudian Slips Lisa Appignanesi revisits five of Freud’s major works for their centenary (Monday 14th March - Friday 18th March 2005 at 3.45pm).
Sexual Aberrations (wma)
Written in 1905, Freud’s groundbreaking ‘Three essays on the theory of sexuality’ is one of the pillars on which modern psychoanalysis rests. In the first […]

GOETHE (wma~10.5MB) (right-click and save)
Thursday 6 April 2006 on BBC Radio 4
‘I had the great advantage of being born at a time that was ripe for earth-shaking events which continued throughout my long life, so that I witnessed the Seven Years War…the French Revolution, and the whole Napoleonic era down to the defeat of the […]

GEO TV telecast a programme on Ibn-e-Insha at 10:05 pm on 11 January 2007. I was able to capture it with a voice recorder; here it is (right-click and save the audio file below):
Zanjeer Pari Darwaazay Mein (wma~11MB)
Narrator: Ambrin Hasib
Script & Direction: Matin Mehmood
Executive Producer: Irfan Asghar
Producer: Obaid Hasan Zaidi
Special thanks to
Liaqat Memorial Library
M. Ayub […]

Tuberculosis has been curable for decades now, but multiple drug resistance (MDR-TB) often develops among those who cannot afford to continue proper treatment. Recently, the disease has emerged in an even more virulent form described by WHO in early 2006 as extensive drug resistant or XDR-TB.
The Global Plan to Stop TB 2006 - 2015 is […]

Mark Brawner has scanned a photograph of Walter Kaufmann from the book Man’s Lot and kindly shared it on this website.
Other updates include recent bookmarks (mostly related to image libraries and collections), and the bird guide and botany slideshows put together with the help of www.flickr.com. The special image links now appear on the ‘Bookmarks‘ […]