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  1. „We were soon on the Houran-Damascus road, the very same road Teta had traveled some hundreds years ago, maybe even more.“

    „One‘s death is a reflection to one‘s life.“

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  2. „Baba is a political prisoner. He is a leftist, not exactly an Arab nationalist and not exactly a communist, but very close to the Communist Party. Baba loves his country, but more importantly, like many others, he is against ‚Hilf‘ Baghdad.“

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  3. „What mesmerized me at Jiddo’s fortieth day ceremony was the Milawieh (Mevlevi) or Sufi Dervish performance“

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  4. Beit Jiddo: Grandfather‘s House
    „What‘s a slave?“ asked four-year-old Ata.
    „A slave is a present,“ Ghalia replied, as she stood up and went to make the first in many rounds of post-siesta coffee.

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    ‚Five years ago, fighters from the so-called Islamic State overran northern Iraq. Thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority are killed, mostly men. Many Yazidi women are sold as slaves by IS.‘ (Weltspiegel ARD, Sept 8, 2019)

  5. „Getting married, having a baby boy, and building a house are the happiest occasions in one‘s life, goes the Arabic proverb.“

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  6. Houran, Syria, May 1946

    „While the village men gathered for their Friday prayers in the courtyard of their tiny mosque, the women, young and old, ran between their kitchens and the shared courtyard preparing for the Friday lunch.“

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  7. Damascus; June 1947

    „Why on earth would any sensible person choose to live away from this city of abundance?“

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  8. „Had my mother followed her fantasies, would I and my two sisters Marwa and Nana now be salonnières in her ‚literary salon‘ rather than the four PhDs —Marwa has two! — and academics that we have all become?“

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  9. “Like its famous double-faced Damascene fabric made of fine silk, everything about this city and its rich was two-faced.“

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  10. Spring 1926: Teta‘s return from Damaskus via Houran - (Mount Hermon)- Golan Heights - Lake Tiberias - Jenin - Sanur - Nablus to Arrabeh.
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