Atassi Gallery

25Nov09

This gallery looks great. I want to go! Next time I’m in Damascus, InshAllah…
Here’s the website: http://www.atassigallery.com/ag/index.php

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Sheftou Mn Biid

02Nov09

I just saw this video a few hours ago on MTV Arabia. I really like it. I think it’s one of the best Arabic music videos I’ve ever seen. Not extremely corny with a guy singing something like “the color of the sky doesn’t please you, I’ll erase it and re-color it, stars fall, I’ll hang them [...]

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Daniela da Prato, You Rock!

29Oct09

Article from: http://www.time.com/time/travel/article/0,31542,1931375,00.html
By: Jeffrey T. Iverson
Record sales at Christie’s recently opened Dubai auction house and a veritable village of Middle Eastern pavilions at this year’s Venice Biennale confirm it: Middle Eastern art is on the rise. But what do general audiences know about it? A current show in Paris hopes to address any preconceptions [...]

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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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Fairy Cup? Ohmygoodness.

23Oct09

From: http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/glass/stories/edenhall/
“This famous glass, known as the Luck of Edenhall for at least 230 years, is a beaker with flaring rim decorated in gold and coloured enamels. The Luck of Edenhall is actually a luxury drinking glass decorated with painted enamels and gilding, made in Syria in the 13th century. Its early history is untraced, but [...]

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Encore

16Oct09

I really like this cartoon so I thought I’d repeat an old post I had written in July of ‘07. Here it is:
I found this an a person’s blog who once commented on my blog. So thank you, person who once commented on my blog, because I was lacking inspiration and now I have something [...]

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Apollodorus

14Oct09

I’ve been reading a book on the history of architecture. The section I was reading was about Trajan’s Forum. I saw “Apollodorus of Damascus” and of course, had to look him up:
Apollodorus of Damascus was a Greek engineer, architect, designer and sculptor who flourished during the 2nd century AD. He was born in Damascus, Syria, and was [...]

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في الشام القديمة

22Sep09

In Old Damascus there is graffiti. (Please ignore the messed up date with the title.)
The patriotic:

Music fans:

The slightly more amateur (or is the childlike-ness deliberate? Hmm…):

My personal favorite (note “Moww!!!!” instead of “Moo!!!!”):

And of course, the inevitable, ever-present “u+me=luv”:

All pictures from Flickr.

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Bravi!

15Sep09

This sounds like it would be crazy fun to play (I’ve always enjoyed playing music with a faster tempo than a slower one on my violin).
This piece was composed by Maias Alyamani. It was performed by Maria Arnaout and Maias Alyamani, along with the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra in the Opera House of Damascus [...]

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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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