When Moussa Abadi prepared to lock in a book, as he called it, all those people who had “persecuted and coerced him all their lives,” he had long been French. And the place where those people’s stories took place was now just a memory. Of course, Damascus was still standing at the beginning of the 1990s; people have been settling here for over 5,000 years and will continue to do so. Despite all the disaster reports coming from the Middle East these days.
“The Queen and the Calligrapher” by Moussa Abadi: Back in Damascus – Culture
