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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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View fullsize The Fountain of Neptune in Bologna in the grand plaza.. from the 16th century. The logo for Maserati cars comes from the tip of that trident! 🔱

What I’m reading,
Winter 2026:

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syria

The Mosaic Program

December 16, 2024
Tags: cairo, city, public art, mosaic, middle east, pyramid, syria

Suq vs. Mall

October 17, 2022
Tags: damascus, syria, markets, mall, corporations, business, people, mosque

No Getting Lost

October 14, 2022
Tags: syria, damascus, mosque, design, people, park, personal

Paradise is Green and Gold

October 14, 2022
Tags: syria, damascus, mosque, mosaic, nature, islam, architecture, identity

As It Always Was?

October 14, 2022
Tags: syria, mosque, mosaic, photography, islam, history, design

Only a Clock Tower

March 06, 2018
Tags: syria, preservation, clock, symbols, Ottomans
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Looking Back

March 05, 2018
Tags: syria, ruins, tourism, touts
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Pleasure in Ruins

March 05, 2018
Tags: ruins, terrorists, beauty, syria
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The Tourist Imaginary

March 04, 2018
Tags: tourism, syria, orientalism, imagination, ruins, art
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Photographic Reflection

March 04, 2018
Tags: syria, tourism, photography, desert, camera
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Pulling Back the Veil

March 02, 2018
Tags: syria, statue, women, death, clothing, veils
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Family Beauty and Wealth

March 01, 2018
Tags: syria, sculpture, wealth, family, jewelry, women
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Displaying the Deceased

March 01, 2018
Tags: museum, sculpture, syria, cemetery
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Funerary Towers

March 01, 2018
Tags: syria, cemetery, death, hybridity
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Towers and Silk

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