Lebanese Performance Art; Circle: Ecstatic; Class: Marginalized; Excerpt 3 from ashura Watch Video
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Description: Jalal Toufic: “On 3 January 1889, on coming across a horse being whipped by a coachman at the Piazza Carlo Alberto, in Turin, Nietzsche reportedly threw his arms around the horse’s neck to defend it, and collapsed. Had this philosopher who signed the following day several of his letters with ‘The Crucified,’ and who was discerning enough not to view himself as the owner of ‘his’ body come across Twelver Shi‘ite participants in the yearly ten-day commemorative event ‘Âshûrâ’,
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