Crescent Books

08/31/2025

Wael Almahdi's upcoming poetry collection is available now for preorder!

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Both innovative and grounded, this overture for Mashriqi English is truly global, transcending both time and style. Readers may find themselves at turns intrigued, inspired, deeply contemplative, and smiling.

Release date: October 17

08/21/2025

From ‘The Book of Great Quotes’
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“The ego tends to follow desires and take the path of least resistance. It is drawn to idleness, susceptible to evil, and attracted to wrongdoing.” - Ali ibn Abi Talib r.a.

08/12/2025

From "Dust" of Flamur Vehapi's 'Verses of the Heart'
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"I am
Nothing more
Than unsettled dust
From the past"

08/07/2025

al-Duha. ~And as for one who requests, repel not.~

Did He not find thee an orphan and shelter,
find thee astray and guide,
find thee in need and enrich?
So for the orphan, scorn not.
And as for one who requests, repel not.
And as for the blessing of thy Lord, proclaim!

08/07/2025

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Coffee Cooler

Location: Istanbul, Türkiye, Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts

13th-14th century/AD 19th century

This fascinating object, a Coffee Cooler, features in our most recent exhibition, The Table is Set: Food Traditions and Legacies in the Islamic World

In the Islamic culture of the Middle East, offering coffee to visitors during Eid is a significant tradition that has endured for centuries. These traditional coffee coolers were used after the coffee was roasted. This item is also an important artefact of the preparation phase.

This carved wooden coffee cooler is mostly circular and has short zigzagging linear patterns on top. The date AH 1303 (AD 1885) is visible on a side.

The Table is Set: Food Traditions and Legacies in the Islamic World aims to deepen understanding of Islamic culture and promote cross-cultural dialogue. What sets this exhibition apart is its unique international team of individuals from different cultures and backgrounds, a microcosm of the Museum With No Frontiers’ culturally diverse contributors.

View the exhibition including more fascinating objects such as these on our website here: https://exhibitions.museumwnf.org/the_table_is_set/en/

08/02/2025

From "Come Wind" of 'When My Absence Becomes a Moon' by Laureta Rexha
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07/19/2025

From 'The Book of Great Quotes' by Flamur Vehapi.
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"The envious resent the innocent." -Ali ibn Abi Talib r.a.

07/10/2025

From 'The Book of Great Quotes' by Flamur Vehapi.
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“His real name was Abdullah ibn Abi Quhafah, but as a child, like many children of his time, he developed a fondness for camels, so he was given the nickname of Abu Bakr, meaning the father of a camel’s foal.”

06/22/2025

Thank you Meri Soch by Imran for this wonderful video! Truly poetry is a human inheritance we cannot afford to lose.

And thank you for highlighting support for refugees. This is Refugee Week, as of course is every week - as Viet Thanh Nguyen writes, "As some refugees or former refugees have noted, determining when one ceases feeling like a refugee can be difficult, even if one is no longer a refugee in fact and by law, as in my case." ('To Save and To Destroy," pg. 7)

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