I managed to get on the plane after all (the representative of Turkish Airlines was a very nice guy) and paid quite a normal price too. First I was shocked…
The red sand is sifting through the toes on my feet; I watch the black sky, sprinkled by stars, with the mountains in the middle of the desert, whose outlines…
“Draw me a laaamb,” somebody said to me a couple of days ago. A fluffy, snow-white, innocent one, whose mummy washes him every morning, who skips around playfully with his…
Morning in a beach close to Aqaba. The sun came out and started peeking over the hills that seem to rise out of the sea and then extend further towards…
Before the border I stopped at the gas station and filled up everything I had. First in the place where everything is dirty on the floor and you have to…
Shireen studies English literature. She's in the second year and her English is more or less at grammar school level. But she's a very nice young girl, wearing – would…
Today we finished the November-December course and I started putting my things together, because tomorrow or the day after I'm finally going to the coast to warm up my bones…
It's dark outside and we're climbing towards a ski centre at 2000 metres of altitude. The melody coming out from the throat of the Lebanese singer Majida Rumi is filling…
Friday morning we're supposed to run a mini marathon (4 km) to promote voluntarism in Syria (I imagine they don't know what that means here). Friday with Muslims is equal…
Nothing new in Damascus today and yesterday, except for a horrifying traffic jam on the way home from the university. It's the first weekday so it took me more than…