Art of the Middle East

“Are you angry at me?” he asked. “Do you feel the same about me?” He closed his eyes and whispered, “Say something.”

Jesus (Eisa) as spirit of Allah

Renunciation is not a thing that can be learned or taught

Rules of Trading in Islam

sipiritual tradition

Why so Many Religions?

Sometime we are so blind inside our ‘exclusivity’ attitude (my way is the only way) that we forget some very basic truth of our reality of human existence.

First. we didn’t decide t…

The bad priest in scrolls is found
Hidden in time in a deserts hole

The old district with the Bookseller’s Bazaar, the famous Covered Bazaar and the Spice Bazaar in Istanbul is a busy marketplace …

The Yayla principle is comparable to the Alpine pasture and dates back to times, when many people in Anatolia lived as nomads.

I started noticing things on the walls – unconsciously at first, but gradually I became more aware of what I was seeing. Follow me on a magical mystery tour of Yemen’s walls…

They are usually sitting at the entrances of the large mosques in Istanbul, waiting for customers – the perfume seller …

They are telling me I am mad again
For believing in the Word
Thinking there is a Creator
Of all you see and all you have heard

Love is that only reality
Openly giving freely to all

The scattered return and reclaim
All that was lost for defying the Name

How can anyone call another to break this truth
Corrupting the Word and the mind of yet another

The night
bloody throated
called out.

The sea
is seated cold,
The branch

in the forest black
towards light

Screams

alone really
aren’t we?