Perween Richards

Literary translator from Arabic & English

[David Perell @david_perell]

The decline of beauty in everyday life shows up in even the smallest things, like tickets, where we’ve let our obsession with efficiency win out over personality and artistic expression.

Like the ticket from the Guggenheim Museum in New York, which I've shared in the first photo. It's an iconic building that could have so easily inspired a beautiful ticket design, but they opted for the most economical option instead.

Each example of this decline isn't a big deal, but the world becomes less charming and enchanted when people stop caring about craftsmanship.

For some alternatives, scroll through the photos. The second one shows old Japanese train tickets, the third one shows an old circus ticket, and the fourth one is a World Series ticket from 2002, which felt magical when I got to hold one as an eight-year-old.

So yes, there’s definitely been a decline. And maybe we’re okay with it! But it’s worth remembering that this decline isn’t inevitable. There is another way.

[Perween Richards @PerweenRichards]

@JoyceCarolOates Rufus Sewell as Agamemnon here was incredible

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@JoyceCarolOates It’s not bad but hard work

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@JoeBarton_ Too soon 😥

[Dr Claire Hubbard-Hall | The Spy Historian @elons2xx]

Rozanne Colchester was a codebreaker and worked for MI6 after the war.

Fluent in Italian, Rozanne worked @bletchleypark in one of the wooden huts where she decoded messages sent between enemy fighter pilots.

After she arrived, she received an important pep talk:

"You were told that if you talked about it, you could be shot. It was all terribly exciting."

Rozanne was one of 8,000 women who worked at Bletchley Park and were sworn to secrecy 🕵️‍♀️

#spyhistory #herstory #codebreaker #BletchleyPark

[Wael Abbas 𓅱𓄿𓇌 𓃭 𓂝𓃀𓄿𓋴 وائل عباس @waelabbas]

وانا لسه طالب
واول ما اتخرجت
اشتغلت اعمل اعلانات للمجلات والجرايد عالكمبيوتر
في الارشيف بتاعي لفت نظري الاعلان ده
كنت عامله لوزارة الثقافة ! 1998 !
شايفين كمية المسرحيات ؟؟؟
شايفين كمية المسارح ؟؟؟
شايفين اسامي النجوم ؟؟؟
ايه اللي حصل ؟؟؟

[Perween Richards @PerweenRichards]

@dancingofpens The people who wanted to see She-Ra 🙄

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
https://t.co/6i9MWs6LJl

[Souciva @SoucivaMA]

an ice cream from Groppi in Agami beach 1935
yes Groppi still exist in Egypt today

[jade @emoshoota]

a woman with no drivers license is the closest you’ll get to a modern day prophet

[ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social @arablit]

Saqi aren't here, but FYI to those not on BlueSky, they just announced that submissions are open.
https://t.co/7rVOxKsqL0

[Perween Richards @PerweenRichards]

@mgoldsm Picador

[Perween Richards @PerweenRichards]

@TheCinesthetic One of the best

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Gattaca (1997) has only grown more relevant. Its vision of a genetically engineered future felt like sci-fi then, but now plays like a warning. Ethan Hawke’s performance anchors it with quiet defiance.

[ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social @arablit]

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, Fitzcarraldo is making the ebook of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anon collective, available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

[M.G.R. @Rickyzzzzzzzzz]

إعلان فيلم "ضي" نزل و الفيلم نازل السينمات يوم ٣ سبتمبر
تقربا احسن اعلان فيلم مصري شوفته اخر عشر سنين
اتمنا الناس الي مصدعنا ان السنيما المصرية ماتت تنزل تتفرج علي الفيلم ده في سينما
الفيلم كتابة هيثم دبور و اخراج كريم الشناوي و انتاج مشترك مابنهم

[Haitham Dabbour @HaithamDabbour]

الإعلان الرسمي لفيلم ضي
رحلة سينمائية متكاملة فيها الحب، العيلة، الصراع، الطموح، والأمل.
ابتداءً من 3 سبتمبر في جميع دور العرض المصرية.

#حكايات_ضي
#ضي
#سيرة_أهل_الضي

[Asymptote Journal @asymptotejrnl]

RIP novelist Sonallah Ibrahim. He was a towering figures of contemporary Egyptian literature, and one of the great literary innovators of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
https://t.co/IyweHI70Mk

[Achraf El Achmawi ✏️ @AchmawiAchraf]

الأستاذ محاصر
#نجيب _محفوظ

[Neil Scott @MrNeilScott]

The great @WhitStillman is coming to Edinburgh next week to screen and talk about Metropolitan.