“D and fables I fashion,” wrote 18th-century Italian poet and librettist Pietro Metastasio, “and even while I sketch elaborate fables and dreams upon paper ... I so enter into them that I weep and am offended at ills I invented” (1). Metastasio might have been describing the work of his contemporary Giambattista Tiepolo, whose art blended history, mythology, legend, and scripture in a grand man...

Lacunary perceptions, biased and partial, often anecdotal, and subject to an impression of anarchy, disorder and gigantism, commonly confer a comfortable illegitimacy on attempts to interpret a metropolis like Cairo. The impenetrable crowd, inevitably “clamorous,” ensures a cheap continuity for nostalgia about the mysteries of the Orient and about the romanticism of ruins. Immutable stereotypes...

Scientists conducting research in the field of LGBTQ+ Mental Health, like scientists any other field, have option submitting their work to a more specialized or general interest jo...

The advanced musical traditions that developed during the reign of great Amir Temur were perceived by his successors-rulers as symbols classical art and adequately continued in their palaces. Thanks to favorable conditions created them, comprehensive support scientists workers, this period science flourishes, important socio-cultural progress field music takes place, professional cre-ativity pe...