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[EasternArtReport @EasternArtEAP]

@cczdigital @fzhassan A well-deserved homage and tribute, thank you!

[SOAS University of London @SOAS]

We interviewed SOAS graduate Lavinya Stennett about founding The Black Curriculum, and how she's working to get black British history taught in schools all year round. @CurriculumBlack @SOASalumni

https://t.co/9UW9VV9uRT

[EasternArtReport @EasternArtEAP]

Time to restore the wonderful creature as a #deity, as it still is in societies that are otherwise sadly going pear shaped.

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Hope any of these admirable and much admired collections will not be affected by your recent troubles

[SOAS Special Collections @SOAS_SpecColl]

Reading Swahili poetry is an art form, and @SOAS_SpecColl hold rare recordings of this poem performed by the famous Swahili scholar Sheikh Yahya Ali Omar.
Have a listen and let your soul awaken with the beauty of this reading: https://t.co/tZ9rXmJeLF

#Swahili #Utenzi #Inkishafi

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Hope your teaching of African languages will not be affected by your recentvtroubles

[SOAS Special Collections @SOAS_SpecColl]

This #SOASLangs week, we'll delve in our #African languages holdings @SOASLibrary and @SOAS_SpecColl, or rather just brush on their surface: with several 100s of languages and dialects represented, it is our most #multilingual collection!

#AfricanLanguages #Multilingualism

[Smithsonian Magazine @SmithsonianMag]

Results from a recent study show that while rural foxes remain adapted for speed and hunting small, scampering prey, urban foxes have different priorities. https://t.co/mGGXbe0EA2

[Ashmolean Museum @AshmoleanMuseum]

Chinese Paintings Fellow Yan Liu & Programme Co-ordinator Felicitas von Droste will take over TODAY 1-2pm & 3-4pm – send your questions now!

[EasternArtReport @EasternArtEAP]

Neglected for a long while in #Europe, then revived and redeployed in #astronomy and sciences after influence of upsurge in #Iran and the rest of #Arab world

[Bodleian Libraries @bodleianlibs]

Volvelles are rotating discs of (usually) paper or card, attached to a page, which can be adjusted to make measurements or calculations. Many are found in astronomical works, such as this wonderful copy of Peter Apianus' Astronomicum Caesareum. #BookSquashing

[UN Women @UN_Women]

Women have the right to feel safe wherever they are.

#TIMESUP on abuse, harassment, marginalization & underrepresentation.

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More aaah, Lucknow...

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Aaah, Lucknow... https://t.co/HvnUfNHO2g

[BL Visual Arts 🦇 @BL_VisualArts]

The game of gyan chaupar ('snakes and ladders') with 10 snakes and 2 scorpions! Commissioned by Richard Johnson in 1780-82 in Lucknow. BL Johnson Album 5,8

[EasternArtReport @EasternArtEAP]

Sweet interior: Istanbul Topkapı Palace Dessert and Candy Room https://t.co/nJAghakj1E

[Milli Saraylar Topkapı Sarayı @topkapi_sarayi]

Topkapı Sarayı Helvahanesini gördünüz mü?

🗺️ Have you seen Topkapı Palace Dessert and Candy Room?

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German FM warns of ‘Growing Frustration With Israel’s Actions in Europe’ https://t.co/7wjL2fj9Jf

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Ever changing, never changing Edinburgh ... https://t.co/3mjpx1iBqm

[National Galleries of Scotland @NatGalleriesSco]

Edinburgh is one of the most haunted cities in the world, with an abundance of ghostly graveyards, spooky cellars & eerie alleyways.

In the spirit of that, here's Dan Dunlop's great photograph of Edinburgh Castle from Greyfriars. 📷 https://t.co/HKOFOWUsxO

[EasternArtReport @EasternArtEAP]

Umm, let's just hope you don't tied down in defeatist or oppressive narratives about expression in art -- or in words, for that matter https://t.co/UQnwg8d70n

[University of Oxford @UniofOxford]

Suffragetto: The only surviving copy of an Edwardian-era board game pitching suffragettes against policemen is to go on display at the @bodleianlibs to mark the centenary of the first British women to get the vote: https://t.co/7qRXuOKC86

[EasternArtReport @EasternArtEAP]

A Paris exhibition on Qajar Iran https://t.co/7v7gWdWb2O

[Kayhan Life @KayhanLife]

“The Rose Empire” exhibition at @MuseeLouvreLens has been staged by French fashion designer Christian Lacroix who has conceived it as a stroll through the rooms of an opulent Qajar palace.

READ our REPORT at: https://t.co/DeASe6ClbA

#persiankings #qajar #louvres #museum #art

[EasternArtReport @EasternArtEAP]

Hai Shuet Yeung's new work, a sequel to his Culture 5000 https://t.co/Q3JJJF25KW

[EasternArtReport @EasternArtEAP]

@EuroxEditor @britishmuseum Part of #EasternArtReport #101Diasporas project, focused on British artists of Chinese descent https://t.co/BbtOsRajSQ

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@EuroxEditor @britishmuseum Part of #EasternArtReport #101Diasporas project, focused on British artists of Chinese descent https://t.co/BbtOsRajSQ