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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoA New Cultural Anchor - CAT Center2026-07-09T16:45:17+00:00
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https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/at-what-cost/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sY2bvKrW_M
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/11zlpahmklfgr8YOUrtLnY
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https://www.publicbooks.org/courage-or-foolhardiness-talking-aime-cesaire-with-alex-gil/
robertogrecoaimécésaire alexgil marlenedaut 2026 françoisvergès haiti caribbean translationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:70b9b6eca3cb/A Poetry Collection Where Play Collapses the Limits of Language - Electric Literature2026-04-01T03:52:35+00:00
https://electricliterature.com/a-poetry-collection-where-play-collapses-the-limits-of-language/
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https://milkweed.org/book/blush-river-fox
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https://www.killscreen.com/anna-nygren-blush-river-fox-language-as-play/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Agss3ldWw
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https://yalereview.org/article/dan-fox-learning-welsh
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUxf7Sfqxsk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LnHruJPPsY
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https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300272741/we-computers/
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https://bigthink.com/high-culture/ken-liu-ai-art/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8ZR9-y4ik8
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https://thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/brain-rot-without-borders-forum
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https://www.koozarch.com/essays/xigagueta-a-vessel-for-contemporary-art-writing-and-thinking
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https://jimrion.com/2025/09/30/translating-strange-houses/
robertogrecojimrion translation japanese uketsu 2025 writing howwewritehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f5b5c5d21d75/Even if we could speak to animals, should we? | Psyche Ideas2025-10-16T17:09:27+00:00
https://psyche.co/ideas/even-if-we-could-speak-to-animals-should-we
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https://aeon.co/videos/what-would-it-mean-if-we-were-able-to-speak-with-whales
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https://chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/06/the-translators-voice-ann-goldstein-on-translating-elena-ferrantes-neapolitan-quartet/
robertogrecoanngoldstein elenaferrante 2025 ianbattaglia literature translation reading howweread rereadinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e219331aaa5f/infinite cornucopia (ft. mills baker)2025-09-26T01:33:38+00:00
https://jasmi.news/p/mills-baker
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFaTxvlMWuY
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-translation-fiction-and-the-comfort-of-monolingualism/
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https://www.artforum.com/features/yuk-hui-daniel-birnbaum-interview-1234733869/
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https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-my-job-translators
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https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/
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https://biocosmopolitan.leaflet.pub/3lrnt3mn3fs27
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https://jimrion.com/2025/03/18/book-review-the-philosophy-of-translation/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CcRqnplfJU
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https://emergencemagazine.org/conversation/ethics-of-listening-to-whales/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCLq5dbrjdY
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https://blog.ayjay.org/forgiveness-2/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDTcp6u04XU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsXD5h88_xo
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https://poems.com/features/what-sparks-poetry/alana-marie-levinson-labrosse-on-resurrection/
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https://hopkinsreview.com/features/adios-cristinalina-parra-interview
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFFNahC1rIg
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https://futuress.org/stories/promise-of-translation/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/books/shuntaro-tanikawa-dead.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmnQhEQIjKc
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qFNJo1xgGI
robertogrecorobwords language english words french flaneur 2024 flâneurs flaneurs flâneur translationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fafb9a180b4b/Loudreading - Nathalie Frankowski, Cruz Garcia, and e-flux Architecture - Editorial2024-10-21T17:38:44+00:00
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/loudreading/635532/editorial/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12btf2Oq820
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https://lithub.com/on-translating-mario-levrero-the-kafka-of-uruguay/
robertogrecomariolevrero anniemcdermott 2019 translationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a88ca218cdfb/The Philosophy of Translation2024-10-06T19:27:42+00:00
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300247374/the-philosophy-of-translation/
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https://rongzhi.tumblr.com/post/763424248342724608/op-%E5%B0%8F%E7%8C%AB%E5%92%AA%E6%89%93%E6%89%B0%E6%88%91%E5%90%83%E7%93%9C%E4%BA%86-little-kitty-disturbed-my
robertogreco↳ Little kitty disturbed my melon-eating
(melon-eating = when someone is spectating on affairs unrelated to them / watching from the sidelines)
English added by me :)"]]>mandarin chinese language fruit cats 2024 humor idioms melons translationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:39a5279f0ffa/Arabic ≠ Latin: Sacred Language in a Secular Age - Public Books2024-07-13T18:38:24+00:00
https://www.publicbooks.org/arabic-%e2%89%a0-latin-sacred-language-in-a-secular-age/
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48765/problems-of-translation-problems-of-language
robertogrecojunejordan poems poetry chile pabloneruda geography atlases maps eurocentrism randmcnally translation language languages spanish español myriamdíaz-diocaretz mappinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fa6f0a3c08bd/All the Tenderness of Attention | Are.na Editorial2024-05-30T17:23:38+00:00
https://www.are.na/editorial/all-the-tenderness-of-attention
robertogrecoIt is no coincidence that the word ‘religion’ comes from relegare, to focus the attention. All religious praxis is an exercise of attention…. repetitions make the attention stabilize and deepen. Repetition is the essential feature of rituals.
Rituals are another thing I am persistently curious about, particularly in the ways that ritual exists outside of religious contexts — in the mundane, the ritual of a morning routine, or tending to a plant, or gathering to share a meal. So I am partial to this framing of ritual as repeated attention. There is a particular tenderness in that, in that devotion to ritual. As the poet Mary Oliver writes,
[image: [“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”]]
Devotion, in the form of love, is another thread in the channel that stitches together attention and tenderness. To love is to see, to pay tender attention to. As Octavio Paz puts it, “the heart is an eye.” Or as Virginia Woolf wrote in a letter to a friend, “I love you, and I am conscious of you all the time.” There is an essay by Ella Risbridger about kitchens as a place of intimacy. In it, she also writes about the tender, loving attention of knowing how someone takes their tea or coffee. She calls this “a small and delightful privilege because it’s a fact of too little consequence to be ferreted out except with small repeated acts of care.”
In the arena channel, there is a screenshot of some tumblr post, that ponders another one of these small acts of care: when you have prepared a fruit for yourself to eat, but then, joined by someone you love, you offer them every other piece of fruit, without them asking. I love the parallels between the image of stretching out this fruit offering and the “stretch” in the etymological origins of attention and tenderness. To love is to offer attention and tenderness in outstretched hand.
[image: "Block via Aura Library [Black text on white background: "...to eat a fruit is to know its meaning.""]
Another aspect of attention and tenderness I have been thinking through, by way of this arena channel, is how to bring more tenderness and attention to particular practices. The practice of reading or research or study, for example. In one of the documents linked to the channel, “An Invitation to Radical Tenderness” by Dani d’Emilia and Vanessa Andreotti, there is a line that reads,
It is sense-full, to allow our state of wondering to stay open, without always trapping it into meaning.
Another block in the channel, is an image of an open book, with every inch of the pages, including the margins, entirely highlighted in bright neon yellow. At the bottom of the image, sit the words “everything is important.” I love the ways both of these oppose academic norms of succinctness and prioritisation and ideas around what information is important or worth paying attention to.
[image: "Block via dani bloop. [The entirely-highlighted page described above.]"]
If everything is important, if we allow wonder to guide us without trapping it into meaning, our attention, our noticing, becomes expansive. One of the essays linked within the channel is “Notes on Notes” by Mary Cappello. In it she writes about note-taking as an act of noticing and this particular noticing as something which has to do with missing— “missing what we’d been told to pay attention to.” I am curious about this as an approach to writing, the idea of intentionally missing what we’ve been told to pay attention to and instead stretching towards the What Else. In an essay on writing by Abigail DeWitt, she urges,
In the midst of a flood, consider the colour of the water.
I have been thinking about why this particular relationship between tenderness and attention is one that I return to so often. Perhaps it is because I am a poet. In one of the blocks in this channel, an excerpt from one of John Berger’s books positions poetry as the process through which attention is made tender. “Poetry makes language care because it renders everything intimate. This intimacy is the result of the poem's labor, the result of the bringing-together-into-intimacy of every act and noun and event and perspective to which the poem refers.” Mary Oliver’s work, and her poetry specifically, is rooted in such tender attention to the world. In her poem, “Yes! No!” she writes: “To pay attention / this is our endless and proper work.”
In this world, in this time, attention so often feels commodified, and tenderness can seem scarce or futile. To stretch persistently towards careful attention and stubborn tenderness can be laborious but it is also necessary work. In her book, Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe writes, “Care is complicated, gendered, misused. It is often mobilized to enact violence, not assuage it, yet I cannot surrender it.” And later, in the same book, she asks, “What is required of us, now? In this long time of our undoing?” Her answer? “to notice or observe with care.”
[collection embedded: https://www.are.na/sharon-neema/ad-tendere ]
Sharon Neema (she/they) is a visual artist & poet based in Nairobi, Kenya. They are endlessly curious about process, embodiment, inner landscapes and community."]]>attention tenderness listening sharonneema are.na 2024 noticing observation christinasharpe johnberger poetry maryoliver marycappello anigaildewitt danibloop vanessandreotti importance ellarisbridger virginiawoolf ritual byung-chulhan religion spirituality rituals spanish french español german language kinship curiosity form translation etymology fruit meaning meaningmaking senses allthesenses perception words languages care caringhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b7a796def414/Book Review: ‘Pedro Páramo,’ by Juan Rulfo - The New York Times2024-03-02T19:12:17+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/books/review/pedro-paramo-juan-rulfo.html
robertogreco2023 juanrulfo pedropáramo gabrielgarcíamárquez maexico literature translation susansontag robertobolaño jalisco language vernacular douglasweatherford tseliot samuelbeckett cormacmccarthy lysanderkemp 1959 sayerspeden isabelallende magicrealism 1977 valerialuiselli 1961 1980 enriquevila-matas 1955 álvaromutis juliocortázar gabo kafkahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:945b056b0b6d/Book Review: ‘Who Owns This Sentence?’ by David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu - The New York Times2024-03-01T19:06:05+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/books/review/who-owns-this-sentence-copyright-bellos-montagu.html
robertogrecodavidbellos alexandremontagu copyright 2024 alexandrajacobs plagiarism ownership intellectualproperty ip fairuse publicdomain film music writing books language hiphop sampling remixing translationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c64a9a506347/Sonic Futures: Assistive Technologies, Gendered Labor, and the Colonization of Voice2024-01-01T03:47:30+00:00
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/89h414tg
robertogrecodorothysantos 2023 technology gender labor voice speech media race language translation care caring voicerecognition accessibility assistivetechnology bigdata information soundhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2d2abe2402c1/How to die digitally - by Jamie Bartlett2024-01-01T03:41:23+00:00
https://jamiejbartlett.substack.com/p/how-to-die-digitally
robertogrecojamiebartlett death dying online web internet memory access stuartritchie ai translation artificialintelligencehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:541238650f67/From Paris, with Love and Terror by Nathan Scott… | Poetry Foundation2023-12-29T07:34:27+00:00
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/147441/from-paris-with-love-and-terror
robertogrecoalejandrapizarnik poetry language translation argentina france french nathanscottmcnamara literaturehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7fbe3812c997/blkp🔻 on X: "Came across Dr. Refaat Alareer's poem "If I must die" just a few days ago, I cried and couldn't help but translated it to Chinese without his permission. Now that he's gone. https://t.co/ALO8E7WwSq" / X2023-12-11T04:15:34+00:00
https://twitter.com/blkpaws/status/1732954318657974669
robertogrecorefaatalareer 2023 translation poetry poems palestinehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7e3554618e64/Pablo Neruda and translation's losses | Pablo Neruda | The Guardian2023-08-31T14:40:02+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/aug/18/pablo-neruda-and-translations-losses
robertogreco2015 pabloneruda translation language spanish español clairearmistead poetryhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5ebe29cf51c4/Colores de una infancia migrante: Francisca Yáñez - YouTube2023-06-30T04:54:34+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUT1hVCfcvE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwOxlpGYJAY
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https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-translation-errors-afghan-refugees-asylum/
robertogrecoai artificialintelligence language computing asylum migration refugees 2023 translation machinetranslationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4c9018b4ed5e/We Belong to the Land2023-04-14T02:28:51+00:00
https://futuress.org/stories/we-belong-to-the-land/
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https://futuress.org/stories/letters-words-stories/
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https://www.are.na/blog/with-and-without-a-firm-grasp
robertogrecoMy own view is that translation—never complete, always only an approach—is an essential element of human existence. Even among those who speak our own language, we often find we have interpreted a word in a way other than it was intended. We can never fully capture or seize the perfected meaning. If we could grasp or seize it, we would soon find that the meaning has lost its magic in captivity.1
I want to embrace translation as something that is process-oriented and impossible to perfect — something that reflects our human nature, a work-in-progress that’s perpetually and beautifully flawed. For the remainder of this essay, I’ll continue to translate a handful of words, expressions, and religious practices with the understanding that my translations are, in Sells’s words, only approaches and never complete. My translations are not definitive or authoritative; they instead aim to arrive at a conceptual throughline that positions language, warts and all, at the heart of this discussion."
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"The circulation of printed Ramadan calendars reflects an ongoing exchange of designed data that I find interesting for a handful of reasons. Two pillars of Islam are beautifully championed in these eclectic calendars: prayer and fasting. Several languages are reflected throughout these timetables and in many instances a combination of scripts coexist side-by-side. Scale, font selection, color, and format are stretched in different directions, resulting in a wide range of typographic moves and decorative devices that effortlessly balance humanist expression with the expected functionality of a spreadsheet-calendar.
Of course, there is another reason for my interest in these printed calendars that points to technology as both an important engine in Islamic history and a more recent threat to Islamic society. Many Muslims today rely on apps and websites when seeking prayer times, since they deliver this data with speed and accuracy. Like a lot of things that have transitioned from print to web, salah apps offer a blend of convenience, immediacy, and dependability, especially for those of us who live in areas where the azan is not heard everyday. But the trade-off for this convenience is loss of privacy through data extraction and the active surveillance of Muslim communities.
Thinking back to the word amsak, today’s technology might reveal an uglier side of holding, one that comes with strings attached. Our computers, phones, and devices offer information that’s immediately available for our consumption, and while this information helps us organize our day and practice our faith, it also reinforces oppressive power dynamics that rely so heavily on capturing and controlling Muslim communities. In contrast to prayer apps and websites, imsaakiyat Ramadan is localized and handed out in-person, making it less accessible to people outside of the served community and more difficult to track and trace in real time.
Printed Ramadan calendars still pull from data that’s sourced online, so they are by no means a perfect remedy to the larger problem of tracking and surveillance. But they at least prompt people to gather and seek salah times within their immediate communities, rather than searching for prayer times on an app and in isolation. Perhaps this means that the printed calendars are like Sudani salads and the apps are like dips — easy to find, easy to contain, easy to consume without cooking. While I’m trying to distance myself from the dips, I can’t avoid them entirely, and I can’t deny their relation to our salads. Dips and salads, America and Sudan, and English and Arabic operate within a continuum that loops and fluctuates with time. These things function and fall apart and function again, taking new form at the start of each cycle and reintroducing themselves to me with an anxiety that’s rooted in optimism.
I’m holding all sides of me with and without a firm grasp as I continue this effort at approaching myself."
[Part II here:
https://www.are.na/blog/with-and-without-a-firm-grasp-part-ii
[Forough] "It wasn’t until I stepped out of my trained mindset when my design started resonating with the original references."
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[Shiraz] "My hope is that we’re honoring and celebrating that work, not appropriating it."
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"Forough: A valuable conversation we had early on was about visual adaptation. There’s a fine line between appreciating and appropriating design references. We were talking about to what extent we can borrow from these calendars. As designers, we need to be conscious that the visual materials we encounter and approach are informed by their complex cultural and subcultural dynamics. We need to reference those visuals consciously.
Shiraz: That’s such an important point, because it begins to address the risk of us extracting visual materials that we are inspired by (which happens a lot in graphic design). In this case, I grew up with these salah tables. I look at them as important design precedents because they stem directly from my upbringing, my childhood, my relationship to Islam. I’m not at all removed from the communities that produce these prayer timetables, but I still worry about the role I play when I’m participating in the process of designing them. There’s an interesting exchange that might be happening, a translation of different design processes maybe.
With that in mind, I’m wondering what role translation played in your process. What did you need to translate in order to design the calendar? What wasn’t familiar in the beginning, and what did you learn in the end?"
Forough: I think of translation here as both linguistic translation and cultural translation, or, more specifically, an act of religious translation. In Twelver Shi’ism, Muslims combine prayers, like midday and afternoon prayer, so many Shi'a Muslims end up praying three times a day rather than five. This calendar has all the five prayer times. So I had to double check the differences there, and make sure that I understood them correctly — to me that’s a cultural/religious translation.
We also included the Arabic and English translations of the weekdays. I looked up the Arabic translation and found some variations. In a few translations, I would see diacritic marks but in others I wouldn’t. With the central calligraphy, Ramadan Kareem, which is set in Thuluth script, I found examples where I couldn’t tell the difference between short vowel diacritics and ornamental marks. I asked a student in my class who’s fluent in Arabic to help me with this.
Another interesting thing was the numbering systems. In Arabic, four, five, and six are different from how we write those numbers in Farsi.
Shiraz: All of this brings up the question of, why Arabic and English? What languages do we use on a calendar like this, for a community that includes many different people who speak many different languages? Arabic obviously plays a big role in the Islamic faith, and a lot of the terms on Ramadan calendars are either translated or transliterated Arabic terms. But there are real questions surrounding who dominates discussions on Islamic practice, who remains more privileged, and how can we counteract or challenge that?
Forough: I think including Arabic on the calendar — even if I don’t read it or understand it — is more of a symbolic act. Even as a non-native speaker, I can recognize the form.
Shiraz: I agree, especially when we think of the role that Arabic calligraphy plays in Islamic art and architecture and how it often is preferred over pictorial images and iconography.
Forough: What is your relationship to Islam, and how has it developed and evolved throughout the years?
Shiraz: I’m an American Muslim who toggled between living in the States and visiting Sudan as a child. As I spent more time in Sudan and compared those experiences with living in the US, I found that American Muslim communities have a heightened sense of identity that is informed by our vulnerability in this country. We’re very vulnerable to different policies and threats posed against us. Because of that — because we live in the margins of American society where we are regular targets, where we’re not, you know, governed by a body that reflects us — there’s a lot that we have to preserve and protect for the sake of survival, or even for the sake of feeling grounded in our day-to-day happenings.
In the first blog post that we published at the launch of this project, I reference the word amsak, which means “to hold,” and I feel like that word is relevant here. American Muslims (as well as immigrants and diasporic folks in general) are holding onto themselves in a distinctive way. We are preserving aspects of our faith, culture, and personhood that are vulnerable to erasure and attack.
I’m wondering about your relationship to Islam and Ramadan, more specifically. Can you elaborate on your background in relation to the practices that are reflected on our calendar?
Forough: Growing up in Iran, I had a different experience of Ramadan from many practicing Muslims. In my family, a lot of religious practices and holidays received less attention than other cultural events and traditions. In my experience, I found that Muharram and more specifically Ashura held more cultural significance than Ramadan back home. The Persian New Year, which is based on the religion of Zoroastrianism, is another example that has similar, if not more significance, in my country.
It wasn’t until I started hanging out with friends in Dubai that I saw Ramadan as a religious and spiritual journey that’s experienced on a personal, internal, interpersonal, and communal level. In many Muslim countries, the everyday living experience changes slightly to accommodate Ramadan. The working hours would end by 2 pm, and the city would quiet down until iftar, becoming alive afterward until dawn."
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"Forough: Sometimes graphic design can be an isolating process, because we don't always see our work come to life after we submit it. I can imagine distributing the Ramadan calendars in person gave you a better understanding of why this project was made and what purpose it served. It also gives you a different perspective, that graphic design is just one component of a bigger social engine.
Shiraz: Right. I try to remind myself that our work is a small scale gesture. In projects like this, graphic design helps signal or point to things that people might need to talk about. For example: do we want to rely so heavily on today’s technology for things like prayer and fasting? Or do we want to find other routes of seeking and supplying this information that gets us offline and perhaps brings us in closer physical proximity to one another? I think these are important questions that go beyond graphic design, but also directly involve graphic design. "]]]>2023 shirazabdullahigallab food language translation arabic form time ramadan calendars numbers numbering farsi appropriation iran sudan religion islam society us immigration migration holding culture community dubai diaspora survival design graphicdesign charts technology fasting prayer information infoviz visualization conversation foroughabadianhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bee69c06cfcd/Babel by RF Kuang review – an ingenious fantasy about empire | Fantasy books | The Guardian2023-03-22T02:06:05+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/10/babel-by-rf-kuang-review-an-ingenious-fantasy-about-empire
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZoL1ilperw
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https://thewalrus.ca/why-this-poet-declared-war-on-her-own-book/
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