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la côte d'argent. singing; open, open... voice floating over полонина at dawn. carpathian honey. june, the month red with fruits and roses. legs moving to the sound of violin and cimbalom. smell of amber in the dark.
Brika, a Tunisian woman pictured above, described the symbolism of her tattoo in stunning detail. “I have the stars and the moon on my cheeks,” she said. “They’re the most beautiful things my eyes have seen. I don’t know how to read or write and I don’t have any devices like you, but I know my land and my Earth, the stars and moon help me navigate it. That’s why I’m here.” ::: Al-Arashi recalled a particularly affecting conversation with a cab driver, an Amazigh (Berber) man living in Morocco. When she asked how his people had survived after being conquered by the Romans, the Italians, the French and now the Arabs, he replied: “Because of women. When your world is run by women, it never dies.”
Worshippers perform a prayer called ‘Tarawih’ during the eve of the first day of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
