Dr. Stephennie Mulder

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Help a Refugee Family Pay their Kids’ School Fees By Stephennie Mulder

Thanks to a generous donation of $250, we're at 34% of our goal! $40 and we’ll cross over the $1K mark 🥳

With one click you can help me help my Syrian friends send their sweet kids to school. In the face of everything that’s awful, here’s one small good thing we can do! ❤️🙏❤️🙏 givebutter.com/ZUTUcD

Help a Refugee Family Pay their Kids’ School Fees By Stephennie Mulder

Alright y’all it’s been over two weeks since the last donation. Let’s bring this sweet family a bit of joy and get this going again! No amount is too small (or too big, lol) ❤ Thank you! WE CAN DO THIS!

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Help a Refugee Family Pay their Kids’ School Fees By Stephennie Mulder

Heyyyy we’re at 25% of our $2,400 goal! 🥳🥳🥳

C’mon, click that link and help me help my Syrian friends send their sweet kids to school! Super fast, feels great!

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In Arabic you say ya’ni every three words so I feel this is justified

If you ignore the first three minutes where I was nervous and said “you know” like 5000 times, this is a very nice interview about my first book! Thank you to the Shi'a Research Institute for being interested and for the wonderful conversation. shiaresearch.ca/insight-inte...

Help a Refugee Family Pay their Kids’ School Fees By Stephennie Mulder

We're nearly at $600 in this fundraiser, 100% of which will go to help my Syrian friend's kids stay in school! 🥳

Who can help us get to $700 today? Yalla let's make their day! These kids are the sweetest ❤️

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Help a Refugee Family Pay their Kids’ School Fees By Stephennie Mulder

Have you helped a refugee family pay their kids’ school fees today? Well luckily you can just click right here and cross that off your list! ❤️🙏

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Seized, subverted, shuttered: a year in Trump’s assault on the Kennedy Center Since a presidential post on Truth Social the Washington DC arts hub has lost its leadership, had its name changed and will now be closed for years

So honored that The Guardian gave me the last word!

Epic thread unpacking the wealth of historical, sartorial, musical, and visual references in that incredible joyous performance last night

Help a Refugee Family Pay their Kids’ School Fees By Stephennie Mulder

Alrighty, let’s do this! For the price of lunch you can help some sweet Syrian kids stay in school this year.

Y’all helped me raise $115 yesterday, let’s do it again today! C’mon click that button and donate, it'll feel great!

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Thank you David! It means the world

Help a Refugee Family Pay their Kids’ School Fees By Stephennie Mulder

Look, I know you’re all watching that one sportsing thing on TV but also one click and you can help some really sweet refugee kids I know go to school this year…help a girl out willya 😭❤️

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Oooh we are posting super bowls?

Here is an example from the British Museum's collection of incantation bowls. These would be inscribed by magicians for a client who would place it upside down on the corners or at the entrance to a house to ward off evil spirits. 6th to 8th century. Mandaic. Iraq.

The Sacred Latte of Abu Serga

My contribution to the super bowls is this silver bowl from around 4th century BCE in Esik, Kazakhstan.

We don't know who made it, but the area was at this time inhabited by Sakas. It's curious for the writing on it, which is likely an Iranic language, but beyond that? No clue.

Oops: one self-correction! This super bowl probably has a transparent glaze over a stonepaste body, but that takes me on another tangent about stonepaste, another remarkable Islamic ceramics innovation invented to imitate Chinese porcelain www.metmuseum.org/essays/selju...

lol! I shall forevermore call it this

The Abbuna Bowl, if you will

And that is how this super bowl, this lovely, shimmering object, embodies a story about the global interconnections of the medieval world, a world of diverse religious traditions and a reminder of a vibrant trade spanning the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean basin.

Bowl | Unknown | V&A Explore The Collections Lustre bowl with a priest, Egypt (probably Cairo), 1050-1100.

This bowl reminds us that in medieval Cairo Christian communities thrived under Muslim rule, and its ankh/tree is a remnant of Egypt's Pharaonic past. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O76461/...

LUSTREWARE ACROSS BORDERS Article - 7 min

But porcelain was as costly as gold itself, so Iraqi potters invented an opaque white glaze that imitated the porcelain of China. A century later, they invented lustre, a technique to sheathe ceramics with a shimmering iridescent metallic pigment over the glaze. www.ashmolean.org/article/lust...

In the 9th century, the Abbasid caliphs ruled from their Iraqi capitals at Baghdad and Samarra. Chinese porcelain was imported in such vast quantities that I’ve been told you can still crunch it underfoot at the port of Siraf. smarthistory.org/indian-ocean...

oooh we are posting super bowls?

As a specialist in Islamic ceramics *cracks knuckles* I present this fabulous 11th c. lustre painted bowl from Fatimid Cairo depicting a Coptic priest. Its white glaze imitates Chinese porcelain and the lustre technique was invented in Iraq a century earlier.

It’s actually even more fabulous! The white glaze imitates Chinese porcelain, but the lustre is an entirely Islamic invention that went on to leave a lasting mark on the history of global ceramics.

I feel this so much

Help a Refugee Family Pay their Kids’ School Fees By Stephennie Mulder

Friends, I need your support for this flash fundraiser for a Syrian refugee family who are good friends of mine. We need to raise $4,200 for them to pay their children’s school fees in the next week.

It’s a long shot I know, but grateful for any contribution large or small!

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Everyday Orientalism’s Top 15 of 2025 As 2025 comes to an end, we are sharing our 15 most-viewed publications of the year. Huge thanks to all the guest contributors for their trust and voices, as well as to all who read, watched, taugh…

As 2025 comes to an end, we are sharing our 15 most-viewed publications of the year. Huge thanks to all the guest contributors for their trust and voices, as well as to all who read, watched, taught and engaged with us!
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Thank you James! I hope you find it helpful

This evening, I’ll be in conversation with George Monbiot about political dysfunction and ecological collapse, and I want to tell you all briefly about a ritual involving an ancient Hittite king, a throne, and a tree from 3,000 years ago @georgemonbiot.bsky.social