Do you feel “ghurbat”?

@sharghzadeh Ozdemir Erdogan has a beautiful song in Turkish called Gurbet about this feeling. The song is amazing and the lyrics even more so

Genuine question - why do you use this sort of romanization? غربت is technically Arabic - but so integrated into Farsi as a loanword it makes little sense to transliterate it as "ghurbat". No vav. No [uː]. Would you agree we need more consistency when romanizing Farsi? A new way?

@Anthony__Koch Hiraeth?

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LARP so hard you start feeling ghurbat!

I definitely feel this, that was kinda poetic

Personal experience that I suspect others have experienced. Ever since I grew into my features people would ask me "Where are you from?" I've had Jehovah's witness tell me I speak English very well, even though I was born/raised in the US lol. But when I speak Urdu, I have a

“Ghurbat” in Urdu somehow translates into economic hardship / poverty. However we use the word “pardais” to describe the same feeling (which also has Farsi origins) in a poetic sense.

🇪🇬 Modern Egyptians compared to Egyptians from 2000 years ago.

At the heels of the Iran-Israel war, we're witnessing some of the most patriotic mourning gatherings in #Iran. Numerous examples of elegies being infused w/ Iran-centric lyrics from classical literature, pop songs, nationalistic poems, & national anthems.

Being Mexican is not related to race, religion, etc. They are a liberal state like all others in the New World. Japan is an island. France purged and assimilated everyone before cameras were invented. Israel is going on a circa 1250 medieval religious war and a circa 1850 nation-building project in 2025. That's why it looks bad; it's out of place. After WW2, we decided not to do this stuff anymore. You are essentially saying, "Why can't China assimilate and expel Uyghurs? Look What America did to Natives!"

Some incredibly rare photographs of Sikh women from ca.1889. These photographs were published in a book titled 'None of Self and All of Thee: A Table of Indian Life' by Sarah Secunda Hewlett. It seems Basant Kaur became a Christian. Original photos printed using photo-zincography