Ech.

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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Turkish? Ne? Hayır.

21Nov09

We went grocery shopping this morning, stocking up on some stuff before the Eid (most stores close during Eid al-Adha).
Before my dad said anything to the cashier in Arabic, the guy asked if we were Turkish. That’s a new one. Generally my parents and brother are thought to be either Circassian, French, or Eastern European, although they can (and generally [...]

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Blogs Are For Ranting

16Nov09

Ok, no, they’re not. But they can be. I try to refrain from that but, if you’ve read my blog you know that I sometimes ”voice disapproval loudly”. This is one of those posts.
Sometimes people in the States/West ask about health in the Middle East. What kind of food do they eat? Is obesity a [...]

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Picture Of The Week

09Nov09

From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/friend_faraway/2681424933/

The photographer said: ”I frequented quite regularly at his shoes whenever I go to Bab Jabiye in Damascus Old city. I managed to capture his portrait and surprisingly giving me a perfect smile!”
Old City, Damascus, Syria.

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Always Summer, Never Winter

02Nov09

Brrr! It’s cold! It seems like winter is finally here. There are a lot of misconceptions about Syria (and the Middle East) and one of them is winter. A lot of people in the States (that I’ve talked to, at least) think Syria is all desert and always, always hot. Like in the Chronicles of [...]

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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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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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Coming Soon. Kind Of Soon. OK, Not That Soon.

27Oct09

I want to write a post: “A Comprehensive List of Reasons Why I Love The Middle East”. That will take me a long time because there are tons of reasons and I don’t want to leave anything out. So…when the list will actually appear on my blog is…well, probably not extremely soon. In the mean time, [...]

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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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