Waqf Library

05Nov09

I’m not sure if this article was originally written in Arabic and then translated or if was just written in English, but in any case, I thought it was interesting. Here it is:
Global Arab Network
By Rasha Elass
Tuesday, 13 October 2009 17:34
After decades of neglect, one of Islam’s most important libraries is about to reopen in Aleppo, offering scholars [...]

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Much Ado About Aleppo

19Oct09

Syria is wonderful. My favorite country. However, despite how great it is, not that many people (in the West, at least) have heard of it or know much about it. If they do, it’s generally wrong ideas but that’s a whole other blog post…Anyways, partly because of that, I’m always looking out for anything to [...]

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Gogol

30Aug09

I finished reading The Namesake about a week ago. The book is by Jhumpa Lahiri. It’s about a Bengali husband and wife. Ashoke and Ashima, the couple, are immigrants who struggle to adapt to life in America. However it’s around their son Gogol, (named after the Russian author Nikolai Gogol) that most of the plot [...]

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DailyHappiness

26Aug09

All righty now. After that babbling mess of a post I just wrote I’ll try to redeem myself with something a bit more informative, useful and succinct.
With the help of a magazine, I found a great website that will send little articles or books to your e-mail everyday (or you can set it so [...]

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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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This Sounds Nice…

16Jul09

From: http://www.whatsonsyria.com/beta/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=383&Itemid=61
Written by Hamzeh AbuFakher
Wednesday, 01 July 2009
Hamzeh Abufakher checks out the latest additional to Damascus’ burgeoning café scene
Pages café, located in Rawda off Abu Rumaneh’s main road, is the first bookshop-café to open in Syria. Established by Kenan Sabban & Yazan Khadra, in cooperation with Rima Hadaya of English bookshop Ex-Libris, its aim [...]

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Sabriya

06Sep08

Several months ago, I read a book called, “Sabriya: Damascus Bitter Sweet” by Ulfat Idilbi.
It’s about a girl named Sabriya, who lives in Damascus during the 1920’s, under the French occupation. While the story is really sad, “Sabriya: Damascus Bitter Sweet” is a good book, and very worth reading.

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CTBC!

03Feb08

Last night I finished, “Cry, The Beloved Country”. It’s one the best books I’ve read in a long, long time. It was very moving. All I can say is, “Wow wow wow”.
  

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No Snow, Books, and 365 Days Until Christmas

26Dec07

So I said on my last post that there was snow falling on my blog, but it’s not working. Those of you who have WordPress blogs, is it working for you?
I just finished a book (or rather prose)called, “Murder in the Cathedral” by T.S.Eliot. I really enjoyed it. Eliot is one of my favorite prose [...]

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Ah, Damascus

10Dec07

From Mark Twain’s Innocents Abroad - From his high perch, one sees before him and below him, a wall of dreary mountains, shorn of vegetation, glaring fiercely in the sun; it fences in a level desert of yellow sand, smooth as velvet and threaded far away with fine lines that stand for roads, and dotted with [...]

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