Denizen

21Dec09

I saw this link on another TCK’s blog (thanks “makinsense”!): http://www.denizen-mag.com/. I’ve been quite busy lately but I hope to sit down soon and really read through the articles.
“Denizen is an online magazine dedicated to Third Culture Kids, also known as TCKs.
What is this about?
Third Culture Kids are the citizens of the future. We possess the globalized views [...]

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Marukawa

18Dec09

I was in the store last night, spending about 5 minutes trying to decide which type of gum I wanted, when I saw the gum. When I was little, my brother, my Syrian friend and I used to eat this gum and we loved it. I haven’t seen it in stores for a long time, so [...]

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Another Article

15Dec09

This is from: http://www.fw-magazine.com and is actually written by my old violin teacher:
Everybody Dance Now by Elsy Melkonian.
A new generation of Syrian ballerinas, and professional dancers, is emerging. They are venturing into a job, not just a hobby, that requires talent, dedication, patience, and an encouraging society….
Pulsating beats, high held arms, rotated elbows, slow leaps, bodies [...]

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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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Skinny

25Nov09

This article doesn’t have much to it, but I thought it was interesting (and cool) all the same:
An Archaeological Tomb Dating Back to the 3rd Millennium B.C[.]Unearthed in Syria
By Ruaa AL-Jazaeri
Friday, 20 November 2009 13:15
Aleppo’s Department of Antiquities discovered an archaeological tomb dating back to the third millennium B.C. in the small village of Orm (Northern Syria) [...]

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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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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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Mika

28Oct09

I saw him on one of my favorite websites. I read that he was born in Beirut, to a Lebanese mother and an American father. He was only there for a year before he moved from Lebanon to Paris and then later to London. Mika’s music is…colorful and loud. I can like colorful and loud but I’m [...]

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iTunes Does Some Things Very Well

27Oct09

I really like some of the podcasts you can get on iTunes. These are all free ones I’ve been listening to recently:
History of Jazz (iTunes U) – Dr. Gordon Vernick’s, associate professor of music and coordinator of jazz studies at Georgia State University, laid-back yet still professional approach to jazz history sounds like you’re talking [...]

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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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