#Soussi

[vyorei]

I have a link to the breakdown here:

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #Knesset #War budget #Alasdair Soussi

[anissapierce]

The thing is though abt chleuh like ... It is kinda the General term used for imazighen in the country. At least in my experience ppl who are shilha will say that someone is chleuh but then like a minute later drop that theyre riffi or soussi but like ... The distinction is still there and yes theres overlap btwn the cultures of mid atlas shilha tribes n soussi tribes (n riffi tribes too obviously) but ...still

#like my family is shilha n a lot of our traditional dress etc us similar to the soussi tribes that are towards the north edge #idk man i know im talkin to nobody but thats how i think #xxaso

[the-official-account]

Do Sami soussi follow this blog? Does he still think about when I said shinji busts it down uncanny style and he was like "...idk what this means" because I DO

#if the answer to this question is yes im gonna go die somewhere #MORTIFYING. #HFKDGDKDHDKDH #Sami Soussi is the creator of desperado and Shinji is one is slightly slutty characters who walks farther then he steps because he spooky #for context #lush chats

[timelorddarthswagger]

women's hands

so cold and yet their thighs are on Sous Vide.

Explain!!?

#boil a peanut in that #global warming having ass #mines of moria #having ass #LMFAO she got that SOUSSY Vide

[arifnews]

Amicales keren terug in Nederland

Amicales keren terug in Nederland

Amicales, de naam van het netwerk van Marokkaanse spionnen en fascisten die in de jaren zeventig en tachtig de gastarbeiders in Nederland terroriseerden om grip van Rabat op de diaspora te verstevigen, is teruggekeerd. Twee voorvallen deze maand die de comeback van deze fascistische groep bevestigen. 1- Deze maand kreeg Akil el Ghazaoui , voorzitter van de stichting Internationale Amicales…

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#Akil El Ghazaoui #Amicales #Bousselham Bouasria #infiltratie #lange arm #Lhoucine Soussi #Marokko #Nederland #Youssef Yaghdi

[beardedmrbean]

Hundreds of Muslim parents at a Ham Lake, Minnesota charter school are threatening to pull their children out of school if the administration does not remove LGBTQ+ children’s books from the age-appropriate K-5 anti-bias curriculum.

Almost 200 Da Vinci Academy students (out of around 1000 total) were already kept home in a four-day attendance strike that executive director Holly Fischer told the Sahan Journal was “assumed due to this issue.”

At a September board meeting, Fischer told parents the anti-bias curriculum came about as a result of the fact that students were struggling with kindness and empathy after returning to school from the pandemic.

Fischer also reminded parents of the Minnesota law that allows parents and legal guardians to opt their child out of school material they object to and work with the school to create “alternative instruction.”

Fischer reportedly emailed parents on October 1 to say that “the curriculum in question” is not on the agenda for several weeks and in the meantime, the administration will be ordering “more replacement curriculum to support students who have opted out.”

The anti-bias curriculum was created by the local nonprofit AmazeWorks. Of the 120 books involved, 24 contain LGBTQ+ characters.

AmazeWorks executive director Rebecca Slaby said the books help the kids “have more empathy for each other because they’re engaging in multiple perspectives, and they’re learning about each other as well.”

“Kids need to see themselves reflected positively in the curriculum,” Slaby said. “And they also need a window into the lives of people who are different from them.”

But several Muslim parents at the school disagree, arguing that teaching LGBTQ+ issues at school violates their parental rights.

At the September board meeting, Aboubakr Mekrami reportedly declared, “We teach our children to basically respect others. However, when the topic of LGBT comes up, we strongly believe that we need to be the ones who approach it and teach it to our children based on our beliefs. This is a fundamental belief for us, and one in which we have no wiggle room. We strongly object to this optional LGBT curriculum being used in the classroom.”

He then claimed it “is not about book banning or excluding anybody.”

“We are not against diversity, equity, and inclusion, but the way this should be presented should ensure that different beliefs are respected. We need to be authentic to our beliefs. And if we don’t feel like we are getting our needs met, families may leave.” 

Another parent, Amna Soussi, claimed the books would cause children stress and anxiety “because it goes against our fundamental beliefs.”

“Why put your school at a risk of losing over 135 students because of this?” she said. “This will affect the school’s enrollment. It’s going to throw a curveball in your funding.”

Hannah Dalske, who teaches gifted and talented classes at the school, spoke in support of the inclusive materials, citing the death of a boy she went to high school with due to the “sheer volume of bullying he endured for being an openly queer male in [a school that] had a no-tolerance policy.”

Dalske added that the AmazeWorks curriculum at Da Vinci is “the school deciding to be part of a solution – a solution we desperately need.”

Fischer is arranging a meeting with Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is representing the parents.

#nunyas news

[k-star-holic]

Tiffany Young, too much? The Soussie members were a surprise visual (sositham)

Source: k-star-holic.blogspot.com

#Kwon Yuri #Girls' Generation #Seohyun #Hyoyeon #Taeyeon #Taxi

[nezka99]

Mes pensées n'êtes plus mienne,je pensées au autres plus que tout, je me soussi de tout mais personne ne pense à moi , tellement t'es gentille tu deviens comme esclaves pour les autres.

Mon cœur est plein, vide mais rempli de rage,Des regret , des non que j'ai accepté,des mots que j'ai pas dite , des sors atroce .j'ai peur pour moi j'en peux plus,j'ai mal je souffre tellement mais en silence,personne pour être là pour toi, tout le monde te la met à l'envers même les personnes que tu aimes le plus même ceux qui te promesse l'infini. Il faut jamais s'accrocher aux autres, tout le monde risque de te blessé et n'aura jamais l'audace de te demande pardon

Je veux devenir quelqu'un de fort pas seulement physiquement mais même

[thecrazyworldbuilder]

444 names markovgenned from french communes and a bunch of english words

Accideaur Actoriana Aisnes Ajaccident Alenau Ambouillé Ambrary Amiennet Andre Angerature Angles Anglessieux Angoulon Antigne Anting Appes Arges Arlevilles Armeilleury Artroux Asnil Assion Assis Atlanspon Aubers Aubersity Auchesnes Audekerque Aulnau Auvelinet Auxerrival Aveyroni Basteration Bezonshing Biarreusot Billaurette Billes Bloissy Bobignac Bobine Bobinson Bobinspeech Boisson Boisy Borde Bouck Boulogy Boulouse Bourne Bournefeuil Bournon Boyfrie Boyfriennes Brandmothe Brangis Breau Brieste Brity Britz Brival Bréteil Brétignan Brévanne Bussac Béthusica Bézières Cabines Cabinsura Cagne Cagneux Cagnole Calain Cannoissy Cantinis Carcq Carquehalon Carquent Caste Castelnay Casteract Cavais Cavaison Cavallieux Centh Cergne Challier Chambersons Chambouis Chambourg Champortuis Chare Charencon Charenne Charent Charles Charlevatou Charpenting Charpieuc Charthe Chault Chaulty Chavignon Chemistère Chiltighway Chois Châlon Château Châtelnau Cigarence Cigarent Claisons Clama Clermans Climategory Cloude Colognition Comme Communel Computer Cormar Cormeil Cormont Corsançon Corseil Cotenay Coubagny Coudzou Coura Couron Court Courthe Creilline D'Armeil D'Aumône D'Auve D'Hère D'Oiseau Dammar Dammarity Datio Dation Deaux Delieu Delos Dieppes Diffitte Distory Dizieu Dorde Drage Draguidance Dramarket Dramartin Drance Dranche Employmes Eneuvers Ermorenche Evelous Eysin Eysinet Eysing Faction Ferregueux Ferror Finique Fiship Fonthusion Fossession Fourbannes Fourg Frenth Fresport Froni Garence Garent Garonnax Geneville Genevilles Genissière Gennes Germandée Girlfrienne Givorse Goney Goussy Graditime Graditimeil Grafficult Graffitte Gration Grenchel Grignan Gueux Guian Guiano Hagues Haguest Halle Hallon Hautea Hauter Hautereath Havremlin Hazebrou Hearanc Houis Hénis Héraulty Héraulx Impes Indré Insection Insur Inville Istract Istry Isères Jalluire Juraguence Jurancenne Jurangis Koungoulogy Kournon Laffee Laffens Lafficult Laffittenay Lagnolet Lament Lande Lanes Lanneux Lauriting Leadelos Lence Lenger Levatourger Lillefrancy Limes Lormans Lormor Louil Lyonne Mader Maintin Maison Malainvest Malais Malon Malonship Mamont Manosquence Mantière Marcasson Marience Mariennes Marigny Maris Maritoir Marity Maron Marticle Martinge Masse Matou Mauronnest Mayer Meaupréau Meaux Memblay Mesnes Metrolluire Metrou Michy Miramarket Montalet Monthusiasm Montique Montmorenon Montmory Montoissy Montpelle Montreux Morban Morsic Mosellieu Moulogne Mulhous Médarde Mérigu Mézier Napoulins Nazair Neventon Niève Nouville Occiterent Orancepth Orancoubaix Orang Orgener Oriestion Orvaulx Ozoireton Palais Parignole Pariteraulx Passinest Passon Pault Paville Percent Perpie Perre Perreusot Pessieu Pianatio Pianation Piers Plaines Plana Poitimeil Poition Polierrity Polle Pontger Pontmor Posses Possés Priorie Puteach Puter Putes Pérignane Quenaveil Quent Queville Quevillonne Queviève Rambraison Rambéry Ration Remines Republay Republayer Rhing Rilleract Rochel Rochelles Rocquehalon Rolet Romain Roubs Rouve Rouvremlins Saine Saines Sannet Sarcassis Sarres Sartin Sartment Savignan Sceaune Schildhood Schirolle Securille Softwarence Softwaret Soissy Somment Sommenton Sotte Soussac Soussy Spection Staigu Sugges Surang Surent Sureton Synthunel Sèvre Sébasis Tampiègne Tasson Teaux Tenay Tente Tentigu Terre Thion Thones Tonnessin Toule Toulogy Toulonship Toulême Tourcourne Tourgoin Tract Trasses Undersançon Unicategory Unity Univers Valenau Valencient Valener Valength Vales Vannecy Vanneuvers Vannion Vauch Vault Vendation Vendé Versancours Verson Vertunive Vignac Vigny Villes Villierre Villon Vince Vitrou Véliarde Vélimaris Wasque Wasquency Wattression Writois Yerre Yvelivet Yvelle Épint Épinte Épintit Étampagne Étampiègne

#names #name stash #random name #fantasy name #fantasy naming #fantasy names #character name #writing names #name #dnd name #dnd names #names stash #worldbuilder #fantasy world #fantasy worldbuilding #worldbuilding ideas #worldbuilding tips #world creation #worldbuilding #fantasy #dnd #markov gen #markovgen #cryptolang #markov chains #444 names

[haquyen23]

WEEK 8: How Instagram Filters Crash Beauty?

Instagram is a social networking site that places an emphasis on the arts and aesthetics. In order to add a favorable vibe to their photos, users frequently use Instagram's filter while taking pictures or selfies. However, in order to give audiences a "real" sense, users of this site choose natural filters over "cute" and "fun" filters like those on Snapchat (Lavrence & Cambre, 2020).

More precisely, as stated by Lavrence & Cambre (2020), the novelty of the applications originally fueled the obvious, fun forms of editing that filters generated (such as the dog face filter). However, in today's social media ecologies, "a shift to subtler, ambient forms of editing, where it is not always obvious, has become normalized and entrenched." This tendency has normalized the use of filters by creating an underlying aesthetic standard for users' digital presence and images.

This is a result of the face filters' ability to increase user satisfaction when interacting with social media. A person's physical appearance can be enhanced by these filters in accordance with their ideals of beauty (Arrouf, 2018), or they can be used to conceal their identity through the use of stylized filters. According to Herrington (2019), one way to characterize the distinct features of the filters is that they let users explore an extensive array of physical possibilities that are not feasible in everyday life.

On the other side, "The pervasiveness of these filtered images can affect self-esteem, make you feel bad that you are not in the real world, and even lead to body dysmorphic disorder," as Faouda Soussi puts it in her 2021 blog post, addresses these kinds of difficulties (Soussi,2021). As I mentioned in my piece last week, BDD is a major problem in today's world and will continue to have a negative impact on a number of individuals. Seeing those who exhibit an idealized figure or a flawless face might make others feel inadequate, which in turn can cause an increase in the number of persons experiencing anxiety and sadness. The social conundrum Education systems must address BDD in order to increase people's understanding of this societal disorder.

References:

Arrouf, E. (2018, February 27). ON THE RADAR: Meitu, world’s #1 Beauty App. Www.linkedin.com. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/radar-meitu-worlds-1-beauty-app-emilie-arrouf/

Herrington, J. (2019, November 20). Face Filters for Instagram and Snapchat Are the New Frontier of Surrealist Art. Medium. https://onezero.medium.com/the-power-of-face-filters-as-augmented-reality-art-for-the-masses-65a95fb4a577#:~:text=AR%20%E2%80%9Cface%20filters%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94%20a

Lavrence, C., & Cambre, C. (2020). “Do I Look Like My Selfie?”: Filters and the Digital-Forensic Gaze. Social Media + Society, 6(4), 205630512095518. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120955182

Soussi, F. (2021, January 21). Social Media Filters Adversely Affect Our Mental Health. Medium. https://medium.com/invisible-illness/social-media-filters-adversely-affect-our-mental-health-3eec79db6383#:~:text=Self%2Desteem%20in%20the%20age%20of%20digital%20filters&text=The%20pervasiveness%20of%20these%20filtered

#MDA20009 #Swinburne

[sincerely-minah]

Gender and Emotions?

How can emotions be a commonality for men and women but also be an element that makes them so vastly different? The foundation for how individuals deal with emotions stems from childhood experiences and the parenting style they grow up with. Affectionate, supportive parenting tends to result in children with high self-efficacy and positive self-image. Those who were neglected or had distant parents as a child often struggle with self-defeating thoughts. Beyond parenting styles and possible childhood trauma that affects how we self-regulate emotions, societal factors also play an immense role in how emotions, to put it simply, are felt. Social restraints like “boys don’t cry” contribute to the overall outcome of how emotionally stable, or unstable, a person is– which is also the reason why gender plays a role (Learn Everything). 

Especially with the rise of technology, including in schools, children are beginning to become much more exposed, the same goes with social media. Despite the conversations about how social media affects teenagers, the real dangers lie with how young kids process what is delivered on social media platforms. Nothing is particularly censored, which then creates a cycle of desensitization starting from an early age– which can be destructive to their development cognitively, emotionally, and socially. However, there are some positives that do come with social media that can teach children early on how to express themselves in healthy manners. Such things as online movements, digital communities, and platforms to communicate with friends and family can improve the way children enhance their connections and even technical skills. Despite the connectedness that tends to lure young children onto these platforms, it can most definitely “fuel feelings of loneliness, anxiety, and depression” (Genomind). The biggest, rising concern is cyberbullying. In many of these scenarios, children and teens do not know who to turn to, more often than not, their aggressors remain anonymous behind the screen. As a result, they may suppress their emotions leading them to be much more withdrawn than those who do not. Also, phone addictions cause a lack of in-person interactions that are necessary for the development of verbalizing emotions and discussing them in a healthy, safe manner. 

There needs to be a certain level of understanding as to why gender roles “determine our social behaviors” and how they can alter the way we unconsciously believe gender stigmas in correlation with emotional intelligence (Soussi). Often, the media presents women as overly emotional and men as emotionally unintelligent, barely showing feelings and when they do, it is typically associated with sexual desires and anger. “When men feel angry they are more likely to vocalize it and direct it at others, whereas women are more likely to internalize and direct the anger at themselves” (Dowthwaite-Walsh). Because of the fact that men are more likely to confront and deal with the feeling of anger, for example than women– this could be a defining reason as to why there is an imbalance in levels of happiness between the two. Social restraints further add to the outcome of how happy an individual and this is why gender does play a significant role. In general, females are more prone to prioritizing others before themselves, whereas males tend to follow their pursuit of pleasure and self-indulgence: “Studies have also found that women tend to act more ethically than men and are more likely to suffer feelings of shame if they are not seen to be doing ‘the right thing’” (Dowthwaite-Walsh). Despite these findings making it seem like women would be less content and happy, their “female morality” is what leads to resilient, impactful work that produces joy and peace (Dowthwaite-Walsh).  

Categorizing certain emotions and stereotyping them with a gender is prevalent all throughout society and children whose brains are still developing and much more susceptible to worldly things are at risk of believing these portrayals. In return, they will apply these findings to themselves, and learning to later unlearn these attributes is not an easy breakthrough. This is a pertinent example of why discriminative gender roles and social restraints remain consistent throughout. Because it surrounds us everywhere, even in school, we often unknowingly consume it all. Not only do parenting and childhood upbringing affect the way emotions are dealt with, but so do worldly factors. 

Sources:

[kwebtv]

The Cleopatras - BBC Two - January 19, 1983 - March 9, 1983

Historical Drama (8 episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

The Cleopatras:

Michelle Newell as Cleopatra III and Cleopatra VII

Elizabeth Shepherd as Cleopatra II

Caroline Mortimer as Cleopatra Thea

Prue Clarke as Cleopatra Selene

Sue Holderness as Cleopatra IV

Pauline Moran as Cleopatra Berenike

Amanda Boxer as Cleopatra Tryphaena, Queen of Syria

Emily Richard as Cleopatra Tryphaena, Queen of Egypt

Francesca Gonshaw as Arsinoe IV

The Ptolemies:

Richard Griffiths as Potbelly

David Horovitch as Chickpea

Daniel Beales as Ptolemy XIII

Adam Bareham as Fluter

Lauren Beales as Ptolemy XV

Gary Carp as Eupator

Graham Seed as Ptolemy

Sadik Soussi as Memphites

Ian McNeice as Alexander

David Purcell as Alexander the Younger

Shelagh McLeod as Berenike IV

Francesca Gonshaw as Princess Arsinoe

Graham Crowden as Theodotus

Romans:

Robert Hardy as Julius Caesar

Christopher Neame as Mark Antony

Geoffrey Whitehead as Scipio Africanus

Donald Pickering as Lucius Licinius Lucullus

Phillip Cade as Gnaeus Pompey

Rupert Frazer as Octavian

Manning Wilson as Cicero

Godfrey James as Cato

Matthew Long as Ahenobarbus

Graham Pountney as Archelaus

Patrick Troughton as Sextus

Karen Archer as Octavia

The Seleucids:

Stephen Greif as Demetrius

James Aubrey as Grypus

Nicholas Geake as Seleucus

Colin Higgins as Seleucus

Donald MacIver as Alexander Zebinas

Granville Saxton as Cyzicenus

#The Cleopatras #TV #BBC Two #Historical Drama #1983 #1980's #Michelle Newell #Elizabeth Shepherd #Caroline Mortimer #Prue Clarke #Sue Holderness #Pauline Moran #Amanda Boxer #Emily Richard #Francesca Gonshaw

[anissapierce]

Went to the source and that woman is Soussi...which uhhh isnt shilha its soussi .... Like shes from souss and uh lok someone from souss could be shilha but nothing at the source indicates such ... So I think that was just that person being unedicated.

Theres like three amazigh designations in moricco based on region, there's riffi from the rif mountains, theres shilha from the middle atlas and theres soussis from the southern region ...

[jloisse]

Des avions d'occupation détruisent la mosquée Al-Soussi dans le camp de réfugiés d'Al-Shati, à l'ouest de la ville de Gaza.

#israel #israël #terrorisme #terrorism #terroriste #apartheid #occupation #crimes #stand with palestine #free palestine #palestinian lives matter #palestine #free gaza #gaza #resistance

[ochoislas]

La fonda del Pensamiento donde tantos van y vienen, cuitas grandes o pequeñas, está abierta para todos.

No se le niega a ninguno, se apareja a cuantos pasan: la fonda del Pensamiento, donde tantos van y vienen.

Holganza es amado huésped que a menudo allí se aloja, mas lo empecen desazones que la tienen embargada: la fonda del Pensamiento.

*

L'ostellerie de Pensee, Plaine de venans et alans Soussis, soient petis ou grans, A chascun est habandonnee.

Elle n'est a nul reffusee, Mais preste pour tout les passans, L'ostellerie [de Pensee, Plaine de venans et alans].

Plaisance chierement amee S'i loge souvent, mais nuisans Lui sont anuis, gros et puissans, Quant ilz la tiennent empeschee, L'ostellerie [ de Pensee].

Charles d'Orléans

di-versión©ochoislas

#Charles d'Orléans #literatura francesa #poesía medieval #rondel #alegoría #cavilaciones #contento #mente #fonda #di-versiones©ochoislas

[xtruss]

Art: The Rembrandt of Aberdeenshire: The Extraordinary Life of Artist James McBey

This artist’s work took him from Scotland to the Arab world, and he saw the price of his work rise enormously – yet today he is largely forgotten. Now, a new exhibition reveals a lifetime of adventure

— Nicholas Wroe | Thursday 9 March 2023

Soldier Resting, Birsu (1917)

The story of art and its protagonists in the first half of the 20th century is a pretty familiar one. But the procession of star names inventing art’s various “isms” inevitably leaves out artists who chose to operate away from the cutting edge, yet who in their day were well known, celebrated and well rewarded for their work.

One such artist is James McBey, (1883-1959) who has found a new champion in the journalist and writer Alasdair Soussi. Soussi not only published a biography of McBey last year, but is now curating an exhibition dedicated to him at the Aberdeen Art Gallery.

“There are lots of possible reasons why McBey is not so well known these days,” says Soussi. “He was not particularly clubbable and never really joined the arts establishment. He was also most esteemed for the now unfashionable art of etching. But aside from being a stellar artist, he had the most extraordinarily adventurous, almost cinematic, life and I think the time is right to reassess both.”

McBey’s biography is indeed a full one. Born out of wedlock in rural Aberdeenshire in 1883, he had a fraught relationship with his mother who later took her own life. He left school at 14 to become a bank clerk, but by his mid 20s was a largely self-taught and successful artist and etcher. By 1917 he was the official war artist to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force; his portrait of TE Lawrence is part of the Imperial War Museum’s collection.

On his return from the war, McBey was routinely described as an heir to Rembrandt and Whistler as an etcher and print-maker. His success coincided with a boom in the prices of some of his prints, which fetched up to £30,000 each in today’s money.

The 1929 Wall Street Crash put an end to the speculative price bubble but by then McBey had a grand London townhouse. He spent the second world war in the United States engaged in unsatisfying but lucrative work painting portraits of business leaders and justices of the supreme court, and in 1946 he returned to north Africa, where he lived out the rest of his life as a leading figure among the louchely artistic Moroccan expat scene.

While McBey’s work is held in collections all over the world, Aberdeen is his spiritual home, and the gallery there boasts a comprehensive permanent collection of his work. Soussi’s new exhibition acts as a biographical guide to the man behind the art, displaying artwork as well as family photographs and diaries.

“He kept everything and he recorded everything,” says Soussi. “His diaries are an absolute treasure trove, not least about his very complicated love life.” McBey had innumerable affairs before and after his marriage to his wife, Marguerite, details of which he recorded in code in his diary. A code, it turned out, that Marguerite had cracked.

“He would paint and draw his lovers and he certainly regarded them as muses, with all that that entails,” says Soussi. “But it should also be said that all the evidence points to these relationships not being just a one-way street and he maintained friendships and corresponded with many of his lovers for the rest of their lives.”

Although Scotland held many dark memories for McBey, the artist continued to visit and, perhaps surprisingly, maintained the Presbyterian faith of his childhood. He refused to work on Sundays throughout his career and in later years used his diary code to record not love affairs but instead messages praising and thanking God.

“He is buried overlooking the strait of Gibraltar,” says Soussi, “and he was the very definition of a man of the world, but for all that and for all his travels and his travails, a part of him remained a son of Aberdeenshire to the very end.”

Shadows & Light: The Extraordinary Life of James McBey is at Aberdeen Art Gallery, to 28 May. Shadows and Light by Alasdair Soussi is out now.

Man of the World … Five Highlights of the Exhibition!

For someone who was initially turned down for active service because of his poor eyesight, James McBey had an almost unrivalled front-row view of the first world war in the Middle East. He was with British general Edmund Allenby in Cairo, Alexandria, Damascus and Aleppo, and witnessed Allenby’s troops’ 1917 entry into Jerusalem, the first European – and in effect Christian – army to have occupied the city since the Crusades.

Portrait of Marguerite McBey (1950) by James McBey. Photograph: Aberdeen City Council (Archives, Gallery & Museums collection)

Portrait of Marguerite McBey (1950)

McBey’s wife is sitting in the garden of El Foolk – the Ark – their home in Tangier. The artist was endlessly unfaithful, but the two stayed married despite several separations. In the 40 years Marguerite lived after McBey’s death, she acted as a steward for his life and work as well as becoming a noted watercolour painter.

Marrakeshia (1936) by James McBey. Photograph: Mike Davidson/© Aberdeen City Council (Archives, Gallery & Museums collection)

El Marrakeshia (1936)

McBey was endlessly absorbed by the light, colours and ambience of Morocco and would paint markets, street scenes, acrobats or, as here, the sex workers of Marrakech, complete with the sumptuous fabrics of their clothes. On the headstone of his grave in Tangier, “He loved Morocco” is inscribed in Arabic.

Dawn: The Camel Patrol Setting Out (1919) by James McBey. Photograph: © Aberdeen City Council (Archives, Gallery & Museums collection)

Dawn: The Camel Patrol Setting Out (1919)

This etching on paper achieved a record price for a modern print in the 1920s. It features an Australian camel patrol conducting reconnaissance in the Sinai desert. McBey travelled with the troop, recording his own first time on a camel as: “Little bit nervous, but after mounting felt all right. Does not appear so far from ground as I thought it would.”