A Middle East Miscellany

These are the lands of testament and prophecy, of sacrifice and sacrament, of seers and sages, of vision and vicissitude, of warriors and holy men. The spiritual and the temporal have melded here since time immemorial. We still see the remnants of ancient empires and the echoes of their faiths. We can chart their decline and fall in the fortunes of their monuments and their mausoleums, in the “tumbled towers and fallen stones, broken statues, empty tombs” where “ghosts of commoners and kings walk the walls and catacombs of the castles and the shrines”. Histories carved in stone, mysteries locked in stone, as “canyons and castles pass ageless and ageing and captive in time”. Forward to East – An Arab Anthology. © Paul Hemphill

Jerusalem

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A Middle East Miscellany

Jerusalem

Israel and Palestine

Ottomans and Others

Jerusalem

Israel and Palestine

Ottomans and Others

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