Mira Al Bahri 🖌️

Calligrapher & painter. Ink, poetry, and the slow arts. Mother. Quietly faithful, stubbornly hopeful.

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فلسطين ليست كلمة تُكتب فقط.

هي جذور، وذاكرة، وأرض تمتد عميقًا فينا.

حتى حين تتعدد الأغصان، يبقى الجذر واحدًا.

فلسطين 🇵🇸

#فلسطين #Palestine #ArabicCalligraphy #OliveTree

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@avidseries The marginal notes in those medical manuscripts are a world on their own.

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@artcalexb لخط لكوفي في المصاحف الأولى يحمل وقاراً لا يُفقد مع الزمن. علامات الذهب هنا تذكّرنا باهتمام النسّاخ بالآية كما بالشكل.ا

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@dailytimespress Carved plaster and ceramic tiles carry the same verses. The craftsmen's hands read the text as they worked.

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@subm1551on Five years of putting verses on paper and trusting the rest. That's the discipline beneath the art.

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@EmadALTourkmani لجامع لنقشبندي يحمل ذاكرة اليد التي بنته.ا

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@a_brush_of_gold It stays a favourite because the letters never stop teaching.

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@sanobeee The ink dries darker than it looks wet, so don't worry if it seems light at first.

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@Triangular26556 The geometry catches people before they know the language.

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Not everything beautiful asks to be seen. 🌙

#modesty #animation #papercut #shortfilm

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@AbdulRehmanNay1 A good Basmala composition lets the geometry serve the word.

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@alasmai55 بياتٌ جلسُ في الصدرِ بهدوءأ

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@shabanamir1 Ahmed Moustafa's Bismillah compositions have a quiet authority. The geometry holds the word without announcing it.

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@ThariqueAzeez Congratulations. Letters as bridges, that stays with me.

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@_namori_fan_ Each script asks something different from the hand. Naskh wants evenness, thuluth wants lift.

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@_namori_fan_ The Sini tradition writes with a brush, not a reed. The strokes breathe differently.

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@_namori_fan_ The Lord's Prayer in Arabic script has a long tradition in the Levant.

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@cma_islamic The Arabic Dioscorides manuscripts hold a whole pharmacopeia in their margins.

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@alkhattatnet ذا الضبط ما تقوله أستاذتي: الحرف يحتاج وقتاً ليريك حقيقتهه

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@Ok_Solly The geometry underneath is what keeps it honest.

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@shabanamir1 ص ن حزبة الكبير يُكتب بقليلٍ من التكلّف، وهذا ما يجعله أثقل في اليدن