http://adiamondinsunlight.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/freedom-from-or-is-that-to-want/ a multi-faceted look at the middle east, and the middle west Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:37:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://adiamondinsunlight.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/freedom-from-or-is-that-to-want/#comment-21447 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:17:57 +0000 http://adiamondinsunlight.wordpress.com/?p=1302#comment-21447 Oh, good Lord. What a disconnect! And in both cases, a bit sad! Why weren’t the vendors in Sassine selling rosaries or other religious goods, and why weren’t the Fourth of July vendors selling – ahem! – American flags ?

]]> http://adiamondinsunlight.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/freedom-from-or-is-that-to-want/#comment-21357 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:34:57 +0000 http://adiamondinsunlight.wordpress.com/?p=1302#comment-21357 Speaking of tchotchkes…shortly after our arrival in Phoenicia, C and I were walking up to Sassine on Good Friday and there was a procession being prepared to go around the block with Geryes Taxi carrying a large crucified Christ at the front of the “parade”. In front of Saint Dimitri’s church, where the procession was to start, tchotchkes were selling cotton candy, trinkets and balloons of Mickey Mouse, Bart Simpson…etc. Somehow, your tchotchkes in Boston were a better fit!

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