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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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What I’m reading,
May 2025:

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Roman

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Pompey's Pillar

June 17, 2020
Tags: Egypt, ruins, preservation, column, tourism, Roman, history
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Towers and Silk

March 01, 2018
Tags: syria, cemetery, death, Roman, business, Silk Road
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Bach and Prokofiev

March 01, 2018
Tags: theater, syria, russia, sacred space, UNESCO, music, Roman
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Palmyra's Hybrid Identity

February 25, 2018
Tags: identity, syria, hybridity, Roman, violence, sculpture, museum
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Profaning the Theater

February 24, 2018
Tags: theater, human rights, United Nations, sacred space, violence, UNESCO, monunent, secularism, syria, Roman
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The Temple of Bel

February 07, 2018
Tags: temple, syria, arch, ruins, Roman
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The Geography of a Ruin Field

January 30, 2018
Tags: city, syria, Roman, globalization, transportation, ruins
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Visiting Syrian Ruins

January 29, 2018
Tags: syria, ruins, desert, iraq, Roman, war