'Tamara’s lovely words just flow in stunning sentences, just a lovely guide back to yourself. I really am impressed with Tamara’s view into the wellness world.' 5/5 stars - Listener review.

The world outside can be brash, loud, and leave us feeling bruised. Affirmation is your spiritual audio guide to quietening external noise, focusing your mind and harnessing your positive energy so you can figure out what you want. And get it. 

Using positive quotes, positive affirmations and mindfulness meditation, Tamara Driessen creates a space to retreat to for moments of calm and self-care throughout your day. 

Affirmation is here to reconnect you with your inner being and learn self-trust, so you can go out into the world with confidence.

Affirmation, read by Tamara Driessen

The social-media giant’s external-review body <a href="https://www.economist.com/news/2021/05/05/facebooks-oversight-board-says-donald-trump-can-be-kept-off-for-now?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">upheld</a> a ban on former president Donald Trump—for now. We ask how a narrow ruling reflects on far broader questions of free speech and regulation. America’s young offenders are often handed long sentences and face disproportionate harms; we examine <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/04/03/reforming-marylands-cruel-treatment-of-young-offenders?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reforms</a> that are slowly taking hold. And the Broadway mental-health musical that is a <a href="https://www.economist.com/prospero/2021/04/16/an-american-musical-about-mental-health-takes-off-in-china?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">surprise hit</a> in China.For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a> &#10;&nbsp; <hr>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Who’s to say? Facebook, Trump and free speech

CRACK (Dub Remix II)

ما أحلى ليالي الهنا ** ما بين الأقمارْ

والكاسْ يدور بيننا ** يا جمعَ الأخيارْ

نشربْ لذيذْ خمرنا ** نعاين الأسرار

من خمره صافيه ** بيضاء نقيه

بها يدورَ بيننا ** ساقي الحميه

قم يا نديم نغتنم ** ساعة هنيه

هبَ النسيمْ طابتْ ** الحضرة العليه

منها شربْ قبلنَا ** آدمْ وموسى

وادريسُ لما رقي ** ويحيى وعيسى

والصالحين التُقى ** شربوا كوسي

وقلوبهم صافيه ** بيضه نقيه

وَهَبْ لهم في الجنانْ ** درجه عليه

قمْ يا نديمْ نغتم ** ساعه هنيه

هبَ النسيمْ طابت ** الحضره العليه

أهلُ الصفا بالصفا ** نالوا المعالي

شربوا كؤوسَ الحبيبْ ** والحبُ غالي

وفوضوا أمرهَم ** لذو الجلالِ

مسكين من لامني ** على السنيه

ولا يكونْ العملْ ** إلا بنيه

قم يا نديم نغتنمْ ** ساعة هنيه

هبَ النسيمْ طابت ** الحضره العليه

يا فرحنا بالنبي ** جانا بالكرامه

يومْ الحسابْ ** أمته تبقى علامه

والشربُ من حوضه ** يُبرى السقامه

والكافرين يا سلامْ ** في نارْ حميه

وسطِ الجحيم ساكنين ** مع كلِ حيه

قمْ يا نديمْ نغتنمْ ** ساعه هنيه

هبَ النسيمْ طابت ** الحضره العليه

ما أحلى ليالي الهنا لأبو الحسن الششتري

E231 | During the late Ottoman period, the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut became a leading center of higher education in the Eastern Mediterranean and for the Arab world in particular. With the establishment of British and French Mandates in the Middle East following the First World War, the Syrian Protestant College--now known as the American University of Beirut--became an educational hub not only for the Arab elite and middle class but also for local teachers and bureaucrats that would serve in the colonial mandate governments. In this episode, Hilary Falb Kalisman shares her research on the history of scholarship students from the British Mandates and their life at AUB during the interwar period, highlighting dimensions of class, nation, and transnationalism that emerged out of the educational experience and tracing the impacts of their education as they returned to serve in mandate and post-mandate independent governments of Iraq, Palestine, and Transjordan.

http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/03/AUB-british-mandate.html

Hilary Falb Kalisman is currently a visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. She completed her PhD at the University of California-Berkeley in May 2015. Her research focuses on education in the Middle East during the Mandate period.

Huma Gupta is a Ph.D. student at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA) at MIT. Her dissertation research focuses on the structural relationships between urban planning, architecture, state formation and migration in modern Iraq. She is also interested in the sonic and visual past and continues to think of ways to integrate sensory histories into her research. 

Chris Gratien holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Department of History. His research focuses on the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region from the 1850s until the 1950s.

Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently an advanced doctoral candidate in the History Department at UCLA.

CREDITS

Episode No. 231
Release Date: 15 March 2016
Recording Location: Cambridge, MA
Editing and production by Chris Gratien
Special thanks to Kara Güneş for allowing us to use the composition "Istanbul" in the intro and outro music
Sound excerpts for archive.org: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer; Harmandali - Recep Efendi, Cemal Efendi
Images via Library of Congress and Before Their Diaspora
Bibliography courtesy of Hilary Falb Kalisman

The American University of Beirut and the British Mandates | Hilary Falb Kalisman

ملخص كتاب - فكر وازدد ثراء

رمل و زبد | جبران خليل جبران | بصوت خولة غالم

Testet euer Wissen mit interaktiven Übungen:

https://bit.ly/Alltagsdeutsch_Erinnerungen-an-die-Pogromnacht

Unter dem Titel ALLTAGSDEUTSCH findet ihr Audiobeiträge zu bunten Themen aus dem deutschen Alltag. Zusätzlich könnt ihr das Manuskript und die Übungen zum Beitrag ausdrucken.

Hier geht's zur Übersichtsseite: dw.com/alltagsdeutsch

Deutsch lernen (C1/C2) | „Meine Kindheit war Angst“: Erinnerungen an die Pogromnacht

Testet euer Wissen mit interaktiven Übungen: 

https://bit.ly/Top-Thema_Kamala-Harris-wird-erste-US-Vizepraesidentin

Mit dem Top-Thema könnt ihr euch gleichzeitig über Neues aus aller Welt informieren und euren Wortschatz erweitern. Wir bieten euch zwei leicht verständliche Berichte mit Vokabelangaben und Fragen zum Text pro Woche. 

Hier geht's zur Übersichtsseite: dw.com/topthema

Deutsch lernen (B1) | Kamala Harris wird erste US-Vizepräsidentin

أبيات مختارة للشاعر طاهر التميمي مهداة لصديقه د. سعيد التكريتي

Penguin Books publishes blockbusting, prize-winning, celebrated, controversial, heart-warming, thought-provoking and inspiring books by a range of authors from Ali Smith to Zadie Smith, Jeremy Clarkson to Jeremy Paxman and Jamie Oliver to Oliver Goldsmith.

Affirmation, read by Tamara Driessen

Penguin Books UK