Library

Curated selection of poetry, books, and other materials that shed light on the complicated questions of colonialism, race, migration, oppression, and resistance

The Art of Life Through The Four Seasons

A fragment from an ancient Chinese medical treatise

In Praise of Shadows

Ruminations on the aesthetics of a Japanese toilet

A Chapter on the History of Adyghe Folklore

An excerpt from FLEE Project's new book on Circassian music

Come to Success, Come to Salvation: The Wisdom of Filāḥa

Timely words on a traditional agricultural philosophy

Johannes Fabian. Out of Our Minds (2000)

The madness and reason of European travelers in Central Africa

The Thing with Islam

Alina Kokoschka on Muslim material culture beyond the museum

Jeff Sahadeo. Voices from the Soviet Edge (2019)

On migration processes in the late USSR

Homesickness Is a Bolt of Beautiful Silk

Artist Zhu Xiaowen on her book and film Oriental Silk

Dan Hicks. The Brutish Museums (2020)

Cultural restitution as a nation-driven project

Fleeing the Black House

On life and struggle of Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad

Oyeronke Oyewumi. The Invention of Women (1997)

Making an African sense of Western gender discourses

Shelters

Su-Ying Lee tells a story of family food habits and early lessons of agency

Alexander Knysh. Sufism (2017)

An attempt to describe Islamic mysticism in all its diversity

Nadezhda Vikulina on Nostalgia, Emigration, and Distance in Language

Introducing poems by Kaveh Akbar and Safia Elhillo

Edith Hall. Inventing the Barbarian (1989)

How the ancient Greeks defined themselves through tragedy

Cook Like a Video Artist

Traditional and experimental recipes to try at home

Life as a Time-based Art Practice

Bora Hong talks about home as affection

Under the Osmanthus in Jiangsu

Poet Shen Haobo discusses family and his poems written at the height of the pandemic