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Joumana

@majnouna@birdon.social
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Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Interest in material culture & things real. Beirut émigré in Oxford. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey…

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Joined June 07, 2026
Artist website:
https://majnouna.com/
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https://instagram.com/joumajnouna
Substack:
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Joumana @majnouna@birdon.social · Jul 25, 2026
Joumana
@majnouna@birdon.social

Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Interest in material culture & things real. Beirut émigré in Oxford. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey…

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Learning about the Melsonby Hoard at the Yorkshire Museum. The whole thing’s amazing, but what really caught my eye is the way copper vessels corroded way past verdigris to turn jnto copper carbonates —malachite and even azurite!
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Joumana @majnouna@birdon.social · Jul 01, 2026
Joumana
@majnouna@birdon.social

Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Interest in material culture & things real. Beirut émigré in Oxford. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey…

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A Very Cool Thing: This #astrolabe is from Seville, made in 1224 AD (Oxford, HSM inv. 50934). On the "throne", at the top of the instrument (usually in astrolabes from the Islamic world), note the #geometry diagram: it shows the method for drawing the perpendicular bisector to a segment (with a fixed compass), used here to draw the astrolabe's meridian line. The maker engraved it like an emblem, offering us a glimpse into their process…
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Joumana @majnouna@birdon.social · Jul 01, 2026
Joumana
@majnouna@birdon.social

Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Interest in material culture & things real. Beirut émigré in Oxford. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey…

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I've been deleting the entire contents of my long-abandoned twitter account, but I'm reposting a few of those threads. Particularly of lovely things I found in #medieval #manuscripts at the Bodleian libraries. Here's a bunch of bunnies making faces at monsters. 1/3
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Joumana @majnouna@birdon.social · Jun 14, 2026
Joumana
@majnouna@birdon.social

Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Interest in material culture & things real. Beirut émigré in Oxford. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey…

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Replying to @Luke@typo.social
@Luke@typo.social I do miss PixelPalooza...
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