Ziad Bentahar زياد بنطاهر

Two pictures, taken approximately 3000 days apart, by the amazing @KanjiTakeno . In between, there were many other photos taken when I was lucky enough to find myself between his lens and whatever else on campus only his incomparable artistic eye could see.

Remembering North Africa in French popular music at the turn of the twenty-first century

One of my favourite poems: from *The Museum of Ordinary Life* by Gabeba Baderoon

There's an ornery busker in Vancouver. Sometimes his guitar playing takes my mind off things: youtube.com/watch?v=OYv9jmP5…

Do they get sent to the board to do lines a lot?

Link to song: youtube.com/watch?v=MsC4KjMQ… #argumentaboutpie #PaulGilbert​ #WerewolvesOfPortland

I've been told repeatedly we're not supposed to read them by their covers, but this thread speaks to my sentimental attachment to these sorts of nerdy book details. The two covers of Season of Migration to the North. The black one is from the short-lived Arab Writers Series

I have censored the one on the right "par pudeur" for this venue, but I choose it uncensored for the sake of this exercise.