Damascus is the oldest continuously occupied city in the world. Hidden away in this ancient town is a treasure of domestic architecture unique in the world. The great houses of Damascus are fairytale palaces built in exotic styles that range from Roman and Mamluk to Ottoman Baroque. Behind the blank mud walls of the alleyways in the old town lie breathtaking interiors seldom visited by the outside world. The entrances of the houses, carefully designed so that no passerby can catch a glimpse inside, conceal courtyards filled with fountains and flowers, exquisite stone work, wall paintings, marble, and mother-of-pearl. This beautifully photographed album of the architectural treasures of old Damascus tells the stories of the palaces, how they were built, and who has lived in them through the centuries. Today old Damascus is at a crossroads: the people who once lived in the great houses have left them for the suburbs, and many buildings are falling into disrepair. The book provides a visual record of their beauty, and serves as a plea for the preservation of the heart of this ancient capital.

Damascus: Hidden Treasures of the Old City

History

Keenan, Brigid

Keenan, Bridget

Beddow, Tim

Middle East

Thames&Hudson

Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.
The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert Hamilton. Bringing writers to Palestine from all corners of the globe, it aimed to break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupation, to strengthen artistic links with the rest of the world, and to reaffirm, in the words of Edward Said, "the power of culture over the culture of power."
 Celebrating the tenth anniversary of PalFest, This Is Not a Border is a collection of essays, poems, and sketches from some of the world's most distinguished artists, responding to their experiences at this unique festival. Both heartbreaking and hopeful, their gathered work is a testament to the power of literature to promote solidarity and hope in the most desperate of situations.
 Contributing authors include J. M. Coetzee, China Miéville, Alice Walker, Geoff Dyer, Claire Messud, Henning Mankell, Michael Ondaatje, Kamila Shamsie, Michael Palin, Deborah Moggach, Mohammed Hanif, Gillian Slovo, Adam Foulds, Susan Abulhawa, Ahdaf Soueif, Jeremy Harding, Brigid Keenan, Rachel Holmes, Suad Amiry, Gary Younge, Jamal Mahjoub, Molly Crabapple, Najwan Darwish, Nathalie Handal, Omar Robert Hamilton, Pankaj Mishra, Raja Shehadeh, Selma Dabbagh, William Sutcliffe, Atef Abu Saif, Yasmin El-Rifae, Sabrina Mahfouz, Alaa Abd El Fattah, Mercedes Kemp, Ru Freeman.

This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

Biographies & Memoirs

Holmes, Rachel

SHAMSIE, Kamila

DYER, Geoff

Achebe, Chinua

Crabapple, Molly

Brittain, Victoria

SPALDING, Linda

Mishra, Pankaj

PALIN, Michael

Darwish, Mahmoud

ONDAATJE, Michael

Hanif, Mohammed

Horner, John

Hammad, Suheir

Foulds, Adam

Mahfouz, Sabrina

Karmi, Ghada

SLOVO, Gillian

COLE, Teju

Abulhawa, Susan

Pavlić, Ed

Kanazi, Remi

Freeman, Ru

Kricorian, Nancy

Mahjoub, Jamal

Handal, Nathalie

Darwish, Najwan

Harding, Jeremy

Saif, Atef Abu

Kemp, Mercedes

El-Rifae, Yasmin

Dabbagh, Selma

Bseiso, Jehan

El-Khairy, Omar

Musleh, Maath

Muiz

COETZEE,J.M.

Shehadeh, Raja.

SUTCLIFFE, WILLIAM

Amiry, Suad.

WALKER,Alice

MANKELL, HENNING

MOGGACH, Deborah

Mieville,China

MESSUD, Claire

Historical

Bloomsbury USA

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