Squid Ink, finally. California looks Mediterranean, ma non è la cosa reale. Nova York looks nonMed, but it’s just an accident of geography.
Asides
The boss: Antonio
Finally started a math “blog”. There are incomplete problems by @CutTheKnotMath . The answer to Maestro Bogomolny who has time to critique it in Heaven: Finally found the probabilistic interpretation: the Cantelli bound.
Edward Said was a fraud. Sorry. I address bogus “universalism” in SITG. He is even worse: anti-Localist, Arabist, helped develop “postColonial BS”, identity polics, etc; yet hardly spoke Arabic. His book Orientalism is a piece of dangerous junk.
You get blocked because n=1 is sufficient for your inability to reason.
There is the dhimmitude effect (Taqiyya). Even when pple have an Arabic name for the outside (Nassim), just as Jews have a Hebrew name, Greek-Orthodox have a Greek name (Nikolaos); you cannot baptize anyone without a Christian name. Roman citizens took Roman names. All Phoenicians had Roman names for public reasons. Arabs: Some Nabateans like Hareth became Aretas, etc. Philip the Arab (Hawran) was Marcus Julius Philippus son of Julius Marinus, etc. No, since the other ethnicities were Syriac or Greek. And there were no physical ethnicities once one acted as Roman citizen & spoke Greek: all Meds looked the same. Nabateans looked like Romans (Plautus). It was class (Senatorial, etc.) The Levant produced 5 Roman emperors.
Douma, most beautiful village both architecturally and scenically. Former Byzantine health spot. Church built in 1610.
3500 years of Phoenician wine
Squid ink morska
Wax. Is it a problem? They didn’t have good olive oil at the conference.
