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In Damascus, an uneasy stability boosts Syria's Assad
Edit Tampa Bay Online 23 Apr 2016
In Damascus, it is easy to forget the war ... The bazaar, like the rest of Damascus, has changed in the past few years ... In Bab Touma, a mainly Christian quarter of Damascus' Old City popular with tourists before the war, a Hezbollah fighter searches vehicles at a checkpoint ... Mustafa Ali, a sculptor and founder of an art center in Damascus' Jewish quarter, hosts Syrian children who learn dancing, drawing and ceramics every Saturday ... ___ ... ....
Bad Day at Black Rock: A Savage Score for a Great Film About American Hate
Edit CounterPunch 22 Apr 2016
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s big win in the New York Primary this past Tuesday, the electoral map—in the color scheme adopted by the —was a giant red dessert ... The Trump sandstorm gathers force as the last drop is drunk ... Spencer Tracy as John J ... water ... Previn had come to Hollywood with his family as a ten-year-old, fleeing Berlin’s comfortably middle-class, largely Jewish quarter of Schöneberg in 1939 at the last possible moment ... ....
‘Game of Thrones’ puts this Spanish city on the map
Edit New York Post 19 Apr 2016
Here are eight spots not to miss. Girona Cathedral. Photo ... The Jewish Quarter ... It’s a perfectly preserved medieval jewel; however, nothing from its centuries as a Jewish community remains — their synagogues, hospital and schools were reclaimed after the Spanish expulsion of the Jews in 1492. But relics of Jewish life in Girona and other parts of Catalonia in the Middle Ages can be seen in the three-story Museum of Jewish History ... J ... ....
IBER sets sights on bringing ancient cuisine to the public and promoting specialised tours (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
The tour will take in the main sights of the medieval city located in Tarragona's old town, for example, the medieval wall, the king's castle, the Jewish quarter, the gothic houses and the Cathedral Square ... In addition to this, IBER aims to make guided visits to Tarragona's Jewish quarter a permanent fixture on the city's cultural calendar....
Cordoba built for exploring on foot
Edit San Francisco Chronicle 18 Apr 2016
The narrow streets of the old Juderia (Jewish quarter) and Muslim quarter stretch out from the great mosque, and it’s easy to spend a day wandering through them, sometimes retracing your steps to see that the same spot looks very different in sunlight and shadow ... 784 ... Once connected to the Casa de Sefarad by tunnel, the small Sinagoga (constructed in 1315), is one of the few testaments to the Jewish presence in medieval Andalusia ... > ....
Panama Papers, stolen Munch and the €1bn flop of Les Halles – the week in art
Edit The Guardian 08 Apr 2016
Art is not immune from the biggest document leak in history and Glasgow International kicks off for another year – all in your weekly art dispatch. Exhibition of the week. Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979 ... • Tate Britain, London, 12 April–29 August. Also showing. Fox Talbot. Dawn of the Photograph. Early photographs are relics of eerie beauty and strangeness ... Twitter ... Richard Tuschman re-created haunting images of Krakow’s Jewish quarter ... ....
Citrus Almond Cake
Edit Huffington Post 01 Apr 2016
Many Jewish people had settled in Coruna, a Galician city, after fleeing from the Berber Almohads' attempt to convert them during the 12th and 13th century. Coruna still houses a synagogue as well as a Jewish quarter today. Though some Jewish people had converted to save their lives, many continued to celebrate their Jewish traditions in covert fashion....
Top 10 Barcelona walking tours
Edit The Guardian 31 Mar 2016
But are they any good? I tried half a dozen tours of the Gothic Quarter and soon felt like Phil Connors in Groundhog Day. Most of the tours were average and one was spectacularly bad – it took us nearly an hour to actually get to the Gothic Quarter and, no, I don’t want to buy a ticket for your tapas tour and, no, George Orwell wasn’t shot in Barcelona ... • €25pp, 3½ hours, barcelonawildlife.com The Jewish quarter....
Even more Berlin to Budapest: airberlin now flies to the Hungarian capital three times a day (Air Berlin plc)
Edit Public Technologies 30 Mar 2016
(Source. Air Berlin plc) ... A visit to the trendy ruin pubs in the Jewish quarter, a trip to the mountains on the children's railway, relaxing after a city tour in one of the numerous historical thermal baths, or simply enjoying the most beautiful panorama of the city from the Danube - Budapest has many facets, and something new is added somewhere or other in the city on an almost daily basis.' ... €0.20 per call/German mobile. max ... (noodl....
Romania: hellhole or country of romance and mystery?
Edit The Guardian 20 Mar 2016
You can live very comfortably here on not much money.” He’s just published an essay in Granta about the Bucharest that Ceauşescu swept away – a third of the old city was bulldozed, six square kilometres, home to 57,000 people, including the entire Jewish quarter ... Ó Ceallaigh’s new book is on European writers of the interwar period – all Jewish – ......
Keeping faith in Toledo
Edit DNA India 19 Mar 2016
A medieval Spanish town with Arab-Jewish-Christian roots and a sublime face ... Toledo is also known as the city of three cultures for its interweaving of the rich skeins of Christian, Jewish and Moslem traditions ... There is the Christian quarter, the Jewish quarter and the Moslem quarter, all easily identifiable by distinctive tiles with intricate designs embedded among the smooth cobblestones....
Cordoba travel tips: Where to go and what to see in 48 hours
Edit The Independent 18 Mar 2016
And a strong Jewish heritage completes las tres culturas ... The historic quarter fills a ragged diamond constrained by the Guadalquivir river and a sequence of avenidas that roughly follow the old city walls ... The Jewish quarter provides easy access to the historic centre and has hotels of character and value (though rates everywhere in Cordoba during Holy Week can be painfully high)....
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