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Subject: [Leica] Syria in the 40s
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:42:52 +0000
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Tina,

Beautiful and fascinating photos. Were you there covering the 2500th
anniversary? I've never been though it has always sounded amazing.

Many years ago I met an English woman who had gone out as an archaeologist - 
if
I remember rightly - and had stayed for many years, settled down and although
not very young was on the point of marrying a local man when the Revolution
came. She had to leave and it broke her heart. I don't think she ever went 
back.
I lost track of her and suspect she may have died, in large part as a result 
of
her sorrow at having to leave a country that she adored.

Peter

On 26/01/2014 17:06, Tina Manley wrote:
> I was in Damascus in 2005 for a conference of Christians, Muslims, and
> Jews.  I didn't get to see much of the country since we were in meetings
> most of the time, but I really need to go back and scan those slides.  I
> lived in Iran in the 1970's and would love to go back again.  Iran is a
> beautiful country of beautiful people.  Here are some of my photos from 40
> years ago:
> 
> http://tinamanley.smugmug.com/Asia/Iran/Iran/3917425_zbkQNv#!i=229714857&k=LWDH5x6
> 
> Tina
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
> gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> Damascus was always high on my list of places to visit, being the
>> oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, but that looks
>> indefinitely postponed as of now. (-:
>>
>> Guess I'll have to make do with a safe country like Iran (it really is
>> very safe if you get media/government planted hobgoblins out of your
>> head), with its incredible historic cities stretching back to the
>> beginnings of civilization, in that region...
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
>>> Following on from Jayanand's link to Anzio, I saw another link to Syria
>> in
>>> the 40s on the Life website. Here it is.
>>>
>> http://life.time.com/history/syria-crossroads-of-middle-east-during-wwii/?iid=lb-gal-viewagn#1
>>>
>>> Fascinating, especially considering the current mess there. BTW I'd
>>> recommend "A Line in the Sand" by James Barr which looks at the Sykes
>> Picot
>>> agreement which carved up the middle east in straight lines between the
>>> British and the French and subsequently was the reason for inflaming
>> many of
>>> the issues there.
>>>
>>> Douglas
>>>
>>>
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Dr Peter Dzwig                          



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