As a child,I never imagined that Sunni girls wd trade miniskirts for hijab & boys would blow themselves up to get on GoogleNews. #BlackSwan
Category: Levant
Rumi is Greek Roman or Mediterranean. Otherwise Franj …
1) When ISIS was still occupying parts of Tripoli, spent a day (hiding my accent) there, talking to sympathizers. I speak Levantine with an Achrafieh accent, unmistakably Christian (now Shiite).
You good, you. But your accent is less Lebanese as it is in person. [Yes, it is Levantine and it is not Arabic. We never spoke Arabic and never will].
You have a Lebanese nose
I vote for Douma as the most attractive village in North Lebanon.
Mystery? In N. Lebanon, shrines for St George in Greek-Orthodox areas, for Mary in Maronite ones #pagansubstrate
The reason commerce flourished in the Levant was thanks to Francis I’s deal with the Sultan (“echelles du Levant”)
A Graeco- Roman temple 2 miles outside Amioun. No pagan worshippers this morning except for yours truly.
OPEN YOUR OWN STORE When (…) Lebanese entrepreneur Alex Massad— described by Fortune as one of America’s toughest businessmen— first accepted a position with Mobil Oil, Massad’s mother lamented, “[ W] hy don’t you go into business for yourself? Why don’t you open a store?” But Massad stayed on, rising quickly to become one of Mobil’s top executives. Finally, on one visit home, Alex . . . announced triumphantly, “Mama, I have bought a store.” Her elderly face brightened at the news. At last! Alex had taken her advice; her son would finally be judged a success in her community. . . . “I bought Montgomery Ward!” Her smile changed to a disappointed frown. She was unimpressed and said, with despair, “It’s not the same thing. I meant your own store!” In Chua, Amy & Rubenfeld, Jed, 2014 . The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America.
