Am I seeing things, or are these figures in the bathroom wallpaper at Bobo in the West Village taken from al-Jahiz’s Kitab al-Hayawan aka Book of Animals? Because who what where when why and how.

#manuscriptsky #arabicsky #medievalsky #bestiarysky #animalstudies #menasky #wallpaper #bookhistory

I have Jingle Bells in Arabic rent free in my head from a Lebanese Singer performing it and I'm totally okay with this because the Arabic version is better than the English version #langsky #lebanesesky #levantinearabicsky #arabicsky #polyglotsky #xmasky

Hey #Arabicsky -- I just learned a word for soup, شوربة. Does anyone know if there's a linguistic connection with ciorba, a Romanian word for soup?