... I listened to his Syrian Arabic as it flowed gentle from his lips and commented the pieces on show, mingling in family memories or tales passed on by word of mouth. On an independent visit I would have ...
... a humanitarian perspective. I remembered an elderly neighbour sharing her sorrowful memories to me. She was just 9 years old when her brother returned on furlough before being sent to Russia. Smiling and ...
... after the gruelling "davaj marches", named after the repeated Russian command to "move forward". The memories of a local witness were recorded in a fragment translated into broken Italian, which nevertheless ...
... in the full morning light. They say one should never go back to a place one liked, in order not to compare the nice memories of the first time with impressions that could not be up to them. It may be sensible ...
... to visit. I can smell an intense odour of pine resin along the highway, that stirs up emotions tied to this country. They reach down to childhood memories, conjure up Greek myths born in this great common ...