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Category Archives: Cities and towns
Oh, Jerusalem, in the snow…
To get to Jerusalem from Amman, you would have to get to the Jordanian security checkpoint at King Husseyn (Allenby) Bridge, cross the bridge itself (a mere few minutes of a bus ride the last time I did it!), pass … Continue reading
“Empire, Nation, Diaspora: Recovering the Voices of Vahé and Hagop Oshagan” at the MLA International Symposium, Lisbon, July 23-25.
Lisbon was recently the site of two important events related to the literature of the Armenian diaspora. The first was a panel that convened at the International Symposium of the Modern Language Association (MLA), the major professional association for scholars … Continue reading
To Andalusia..
A slightly revised version of a dispatch originally posted in summer, 2011. Madrid, Barrio of Trafalgar, May 2011 It was Mahmoud Darwish, by his own personal and poetic admission a lover of Andalusia, who said about love—that love is either … Continue reading
Posted in Cities and towns, Letters and dispatches, Passages and Homes, Small joys, Those we Love
Tagged Albaiacin, Andalusia, Darwish, poems of love, Spain, travel
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In Praise of Bookstores
~~This is a re-post from 2013, when Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA, was voted best bookstore in Boston in the A-list of Boston. This morning, by chance, I found out that Harvard Book Store was voted best bookstore for 2017. … Continue reading
The Call of the Adriatic
~~From time to time, I post photographs from friends who are traveling to the world’s remote corners and bringing or sending back photographs. Today’s wayward photos and words are those of my daughter, Tamar, taken during our trip to Croatia … Continue reading
Posted in Cities and towns, Ordinary places, Rx for Maladies
Tagged Adriatic Sea, Dubrovnik, travel
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Awesome Plitvice, Croatia
“Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, and use nothing but time.” These are the directives posted by UNESCO at the entrance to the trails and waterfalls that make up the Plitvice Lake Park in northern Croatia. The Park … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, well enough, Cities and towns, Small joys
Tagged Croatia, Hiking, Plitvice, travel, UNESCO world hesitage site
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In Split, Croatia
~~My friend and colleague A.S. wrote today from Yerevan: “We all live for great food, great stories (to be encountered during our journeys anywhere), and great conversations,” all of which converge when we travel. The story of the day for … Continue reading
Posted in Cities and towns, Rx for Maladies, Small joys
Tagged Anti-fascist day in Split, Croatia, Dubrovnik, Split, vishné liquor
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The Valise–a family memoir
~~”The Valise” was published in the fall 2011 issue of American Literary Review. Since then, the publication has gone digital, and the essay is not available in print or on the ALR website. You can read it … Continue reading
Posted in Armenians, Cities and towns, Languages and readings, Ordinary places, Palestinians, Those we Love
Tagged Abdelrahman Munif, American Literary Review, Amman, Araxi Oshagan, Armenian Genocide, Armenians, Boursa, Erzurum, expulsion from Palestine, Family chronicle, family memoir, Hagop Oshagan, Jerusalem, Mnatsortats, refugees, Remnants (Mnatsortats), western Armenian literature
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From the Archives–travel: Spain 2
~~ This essay was originally on June 4, 2011, shortly after we had visited Sacromonte inAndalusia. It was later published on the blog of the radio program “On Being.” ~~ The Trail to Sacromonte The road may be—and almost always … Continue reading
Posted in Cities and towns, Ordinary places, Rx for Maladies
Tagged Alhambra, Andalusia, Camino Sacromonte, Spain travel
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A Volga in Yerevan…
The weather is changing in Yerevan; winter is almost here. The evening, especially, are on the cold side, often rainy, the streets wet under the light drizzle. It’s true what everyone says about such Yerevan evenings, when you leave a … Continue reading
Posted in Armenians, Cities and towns, Small joys
Tagged classic cars, Soviet cars, travel, Volga GAZ-21, Yerevan
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