Gemmaindia - Gemma India

Chicken Bus in Antigua, Guatemala, 2012 by Gemma Givens. 

Egypt - The National Library of Egypt's Collection of Mamluk Qur'an Manuscripts

One hundred and forty Mamluk Qur'an manuscripts and bindings that can be securely dated to the Mamluk period (1250-1517 CE) by colophons and endowment and dedicatory statements. During this time, Cairo became the cultural, religious, and intellectual centre of the Islamic world. The manuscripts are almost unmatched for splendor, opulence, and size in the history of the Islamic arts of the book and they are key to our understanding of developments in Islamic calligraphy, illumination and bookbinding not only in Mamluk Egypt but throughout the Islamic world.

Clayton Thomas Mueller and Kandi Mossett of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) at the UN Climate Negotiations, Copenhagen, 2009 by Gemma Givens.

Istanbul, n.d.

[Credit : Ara Güler]

30 day song challenge

Day 03: A song that makes you happy

The May exhibition at the new La Antigua Galeria de Arte extension by Gemma

Indigenous Beginnings 

From the Utopias Series by Carlos Chavez

5a Avenida Norte, Antigua Guatemala

وتمضي الأيام مضياً ويبقى ذكراها (by mo3bra)