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Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism (Writing Architecture)

by Anthony Vidler

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Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation

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الحروب الصليبية في المشرق و المغرب

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“اللهم أعطنا القوة، لندرك أن الخائفين لا يصنعون الحرية، والضعفاء لا يخلقون الكرامة، والمترددين لن تقوى أيديهم المرتعشة على البناء.”
― جمال عبد الناصر

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“لا تقتل البعوض ولكن خفف المستنقعات”
― علي عزت بيجوفيتش, هروبي إلى الحرية

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“ملعون في دين الرحمن... من يسجن شعباً.. من يخنق فكراً.. من يرفع سوطاً.. من يُسكت رأياً.. من يبني سجناً.. من يرفع رايات الطغيان.. ملعون في كل الأديان.. من يُهدر حق الإنسان.. حتى لو صلّى أو زكّى وعاش العُمرَ مع القرآن”
― جمال الدين الأفغاني

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“I had loved you all my life unaware, that is, the idea of you.”
― Michael Kelahan, The World's Greatest Love Letters

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