Syria
81 creative works found
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Facade of ancient homes in Damascus, Syria / WINNER: Full Frontal Facades Group “Lots of Windows” challenge / GROUP AVATAR: Full Frontal Facades Group / PUBLISHED in Soura Magazine Issue 26 / 2009 vol. 3, June / July 2009
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An old Arab man on an ancient backstreet – Aleppo, Syria.
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A Bedouin’s donkey, just outside of Palmyra. This is a image for the following story.
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Coppersmith still toiling away late at night, Damascus Syria / 2nd PLACE: Art of the Middle East Group “Earning a Living” Challenge
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PUBLISHED Soura Magazine Issue 26 / 2009 vol.3, June / July 2009
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The Roman Ruins of Palmyra – Eastern Syria.
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Old building in a town called Tartous, Syria
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Damascus “Four Seasons” hotel – Syria Voted Top Ten in the challenge Babylone for the group First Things
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Damascus, Syria
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Old scooter in Damascus, Syria
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Detail of wall in an old boilermaker workshop, Damascus, Syria. / PUBLISHED in Soura Magazine Issue 26 / 2009 vol. 3, July / August 2009.
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Damascus, Syria
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A kitten in the street in Aleppo, Syria.
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A pair of Bedouin Shepherds – Great Syrian Desert
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Damascus – Syria / (the old city of Damascus is a UNESCO World Heritage Site)
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Rumouz * The checkered, black and white, or red and white, headdress / with its tussled, tubular black crown / has long been a symbol of Arab pride. / More recently, particularly in the West, it has come to represent / whatever fears and prejudices conjured by current world events. It seems like as long as Arabs have existed, the “kafiyah” was part of them. / Protecting head from harsh desert sun. / Warming neck against evening chill. / Shielding nose and mouth from sand storms. That is how I remember grandfather Abu Sami. / His generation, the last of the Al-Jundi’s to wear this traditional garb. / My father and uncles, his college-educated children, / opted for the Western suit. / It was their symbol of progress. My generation, did not want to lose the kafiyah. / Although we wore the uniform of pants, shirts and jackets in high school, / we used the kafiyah as a scarf. / Folding the expansive square into a triangle, and draping it across the shoulders. Or loosely rolling it and wrapping it around the neck. / It was the cool thing to do. / It was also our way of saying: We are Arabs, and we are proud of it. It was our attempt to hold on to an identity / in a world increasingly turbulent / and very much unkind / to our sense / of humanity. - *Rumouz is the word for “Symbols” in Arabic
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Palmyra – Syria / (Palmyra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site) / This temple 2000 years old is one of the rare still preserved building built by the Roman Empire in the Middle-East.
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Jezireh – Syria
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Pen & ink
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Old Beetle in Damascus, Syria
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Old building in a town called Tartous, Syria
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Montage – World landmarks – White House, Lebanon, Syria, prague
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My entry in the Group Challenge Remembrance , Deep Within RB Group Blue Shadow / For my father I Thirty thousand feet above the ocean. / Wind and sand blow in cavernous spaces I carried / since our goodbye at the Castle Hotel. I try tricking my mind / to make it let go— Our morning coffees. / These past few days in Larnaca. / How we stretched them, bridging continents / fifteen years apart. II I close my eyes. Time is like air. / Damascus drifts in. I’m sitting next to you at your favorite café. / You think I am after the sweets you let me order / like a grown-up. / I’m there to listen to you talk. / To watch you and your friends / drink your coffee and beer. You ask a palm reader to tell my future. / I extend an eager hand. / Imagine myself a grown man, / married, three children. III* You, / bohemian to a fault, / insubordinate maverick / of women, wine, and poetry, / titled your new book: Sa’ara Rama’ dun. / Turned to Ashes. I asked you / does death frighten you? / You said / It used to. You then stepped / into my faint blue shadow, / plucked shiny white feathers / from my wings, / and gave me / a handful of earth. © Assef Al-Jundi This poem appears in the poetry collection In These Latitudes, Ten Contemporary Poets , published by Wings press.
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