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23Nov09

A friend of mine who also lives in Syria just recently blogged about Western things in Syria. See here. This post is not meant to, in any way, put what she said down, or anything like that. I’ve been planning to write on this subject for a while and this is simply a different perspective. [...]

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The TCKs Who Went Up The Hill That Seemed Like A Mountain

14Nov09

Another random memory of my childhood in Syria:
My brother and I used to go to a Syrian school in Damascus (third grade and first grade, respectively). The bus would drop us off at the main street and we’d walk up the hill, which to my 6 year-old proportions, seemed like a mountain. Along the way [...]

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La Mezquita

26Oct09

Japan, Algeria, Croatia and South Africa are just some of the many countries I’d like to see. Spain is another one. I want to visit Spain for several reasons but one of the reasons is the Great Mosque of Cordoba. I really like architecture, especially Islamic architecture, so the mosque is something I would love to [...]

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“When I Was Just A Little Girl…”

13Oct09

…My parents pierced my ears. That sounds like they did it themselves and did it recently. Let me clarify. When I was about 3 months old, my parents got my ears pierced at the doctor’s office. In the Middle East, little girls get their ears pierced. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a woman in Syria [...]

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Watch Your Step, Mind The Gap

24Sep09

As we get ready to head back home, I’ve been pre-packing and thinking about packing, planes and airports. Since all this travel stuff is on my mind I thought I’d write short summaries, in lax alphabetical order, of some (but not all) of the airports I’ve been in. Here goes.
Abu Dhabi International Airport: It’s [...]

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This American Life

22Sep09

While I was clearing up the plates after dinner on Sunday night, I asked my grandma if she had gotten the mail. I had already checked earlier, but the mailbox was empty. I thought that the mailman had Saturday off, but he came on Saturday so I naively assumed that it was 7 days a [...]

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StIcKs OuT

14Sep09

Near my grandparents house, there’s a building that’s for water or something like that (not sure), that I can see from the window of the room I stay in while we’re in the States. My brother and I agreed a long time ago that it looks like a building in Damascus. Not a particular one, [...]

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Hillbillies

11Sep09

On our recent vacation in Asia, our flight from LA to Taipei was delayed because of a typhoon. (It might have been the early beginnings of Morakot, I think.) Anyway, because we got into Taipei about 4 hours late, we had to run through the airport, which is very shiny, by the way, to catch [...]

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Home

26Aug09

We’ve been back (from our vacation) in the States now for a few days. As we got of the plane from Taipei, the flight attendant, who had been saying, “thank you”, saw us and some other Americans and changed it to “welcome home”. Ha. Ha. Ha…
I know she was doing her job and being nice, [...]

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Pnin

26Jul09

“Pnin is the fourth novel written in English by Vladimir Nabokov; it was published in 1957.”
“Pnin, a refugee in his 50s from both Communist Russia and what he called the “Hitler war”, came to the United States in 1940 and is an associate professor of Russian at fictional Waindell College, probably modeled on Wellesley and [...]

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