Set and rise
The sun rises over the Mediterranean coast of Syria.
I'm back in Dubai, and next week this website will be up and running again every day as elktown enters the home stretch.
Update, August 16
This picture has more resonance than I realized at first. Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and parts of Turkey -- in other words, the eastern coast of the Mediterranean -- are known as the Levant. Levant is the French word for "rising," so called because from the western European perspective, this is the land of the rising Mediterranean sun.
I'm re-reading "From Beirut to Jerusalem" by Tom Friedman, in my last free hours before law school, and he describes the beautiful Levantine culture of pre-civil war Beirut. It dovetails with my impression of my Lebanese students, who tended to be a bit more stylish, open and flirtatious than my students from the Gulf region. Though all Arabs, the Lebs were Levantine.
posted by Eric at 2:44 AM
2 Comments:
good pictures, and even more entertainly, are the descriptions. you should tell your friends about that one experience in Paris years ago when all those birds landed on your outstretched arm. i just wish a camera could have caught the expression on your face-much more memorable than even the structures of dubai or paris
Gorgeous pictures... good writing, also, but perhaps not meant for your mother to read in its entirety?? Hate to remind you of this, but do you remember that I BEGGED you to take a camera during the year you spent in France... but, not surprisingly, you did not heed your mothers advice... Oh well... You are certainly making up for photography lapse now... Please take pictures if you go to Turkey... you might go to City records and look up name Galanti if you can.... I love you much, much.... mom
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