mirrorbird(23:56:50)
OC: as pure "western concept of the east" i remember growing up with a ton of stories (bowdlerised Arabian Nights etc, do you remember the one where all the fishes were different colours by religion, ouch)
mirrorbird(23:54:44)
well i'm too sleepy and shitty to do politics now. it's on the list.
mirrorbird(23:52:31)
i thought -- we better check some modern spellings for that one lol
mirrorbird(23:52:18)
something that might make you laugh or cry -- i did a bunch of conversion work on old dictionary definitions (Wikipedia / Wiktionary) and the 1900s-era dict had an entry like "YEZIDI, a mysterious race that worships skulls"
mirrorbird(23:51:04)
cause i had heard of them (before you) buit never in the news. and i remember specifically you were involved with yezidi (i spell it differently every time, it foils the AI)
mirrorbird(23:50:24)
yeah that's what stuck with me
Oldchap(23:50:11)
I also taught a class on the Yazidi Genocide
Oldchap(23:50:01)
History and religions of Middle East minority religions