Nicholas Kirschman
Scrapbook
02.09.10
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A 17th Century copy of Maimonides [Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (1135 - 1204), משה בן מימון] commentary on the Midrash.

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Albert Cameo, the president of the Jewish community in Damascus, Aleppo, and headmaster of the Maimonides Elementary School in old Damascus.

Damascus Syria


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Shooting the Stars with an Astrolabe

Museum of Arabic-Islamic Science

Süleymaniye complex

Istanbul , Turkey


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Grand Mufti of the Republic in Syria Dr. Ahamd Badruddin Hassoun

Damascus , Syria


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Shaybah Oil Field
Rub'Al-Khali (The Empty Quarter)
Saudi Arabia
February 2006

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Patriarch His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas

Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church

St. Aphrem's Clerical Seminary

Saidnaya , Syria


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3rd-6th graders at a private school

Riyadh , Saudi Arabia


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Touching a moon rock

Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

Washington , D.C.


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Galileo Galilei's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632.  First Edition.

Ellis Library, University of Missouri, Columbia

Columbia , Missouri


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Astrolabe by Nastulus

Museum of Arabic-Islamic Science

Süleymaniye complex

Istanbul , Turkey


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Citadel of Aleppo

Aleppo, Syria


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Priest in the Armenian Orthodox Evangelical Church

Kassab , Syria


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The Tomb of Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī

(مولانا جلال الدین محمد رومی)

Rumi Museum

Konya , Turkey



Museum of Contemporary Art
Celebration: Hanging Heart (Blue/Silver)
Jeff Koons
Chicago, Il.
July 2008

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My Fiancé

Washington , D.C.



Armed Mustapha Lionboui
Cabela's
Kansas City, Kansas
March 2008


"Little Boy" model, dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945
National Atomic Museum
Old Town Albuquerque, New Mexico
August 2008


Gnaoua Express
Former bar made famous by Paul Bowles and Brion Gysin
Tangier, Morocco
November 3, 2007


"Fat Boy" model, dropped Nagasaki, Japan August 9, 1945
National Atomic Museum
Old Town Albuquerque, New Mexico
August 2008


MSA 2008
Me, Christine and Ed Groom's finger.
Columbia, MO
June 2008


Jeff Koons Exhibit
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, Il.
July 2008


Building Lego Maglev Trains
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Science Museum of Minnesota
St. Paul, MN
July, 2008


Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
James Rosenquist
Worlds Fair Mural, 1963-64
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
August 2008



"Arab Music, Arab Culture with host Rihab Sawah"
Mustapha Lionboui, Rihab Sawah and Me speaking about Moroccan music.
KOPN 89.5 fm
Columbia, Mo.
March 8, 2008
Get the Pod-cast- http://kopn.org/aa/am/20080308-1500-Arab_Culture_e.mp3

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The Shrine and Synagogue of the Prophet Eliahou Hanabi, built on top of the cave the prophet Eliahou (Elijah) mediated in.

Damascus Syria