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19. An Oriental Student [A.A. Paton], The Modern Syrians (London, Longman Green, pp.12-14. ♠
20. Murray Handbook, p. 469 ♠
21. Deborah Howard, "Death in Damascus: Venetians in Syria in the Mid-Fifteenth Century," Murqanas, 20 (2003) ♠
22. Siham Tergeman, Daughter of Damascus (Austin, University of Texas Press, 1994). ♠
23. Ibid., p. 17 ♠
24. A wonderfully detailed account of this may be found in C.P. Grant, The Syrian Desert: Caravans, Travel and Exploration (London, Black, 1937) ♠
25. An Oriental Student [A.A. Paton], The Modern Syrians (London, Longman Green, 1844), p.13 ♠
26. Rafik Schami, Damascus: Taste of a City (London, Haus, 2005 edn) ♠
27. Siham Tergeman devotes several pages of her memoir to this food aspect: Tergeman, pp. 45-53 ♠
28. John Birmingham, He Died With a Falafel in His Hand (Sydney, Duffy & Snellgrove, 1994). ♠
29. Colin Thubron, A Mirror to Damascus (London, Vintage, 1996 edn) ♠
30. Ibn Al-Qalanisi, The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades (New York, Dover, 2002 edn) ♠
31. James Grehan, Everyday Life & Consumer Culture in 18th Century Damascus (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2007), ch. II ♠
32. Karl Baedeker, Palestine & Syria (Leipzig, Baedeker, 1906), p. 301. ♠
33. Samer Akkach, "Leisure Gardens, Secular Habits: the Culture of Recreation in Ottoman Damascus", Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, Number 1, 2010 ♠
34. Robert Richardson, Travels Along the Mediterranean, pp. 475-6 ♠
35. Baedeker, Palestine and Syria, p. xxix ♠
36. A Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine, p. 481 ♠
37. Mrs Mackintosh, Damascus and its People, p. 32 ♠
38. Siham Tergeman, Daughter of Damascus, p.17 ♠
39. Marius Kociejowski, The Pigeon Wars of Damascus (Emeryville Ontario, Biblioasis, 2011) ♠
40. Victor Turner, The Forest of Symbols (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1970) ♠
41. See, for example, Eyal Zisser, "Does Bashar al-Assad Rule Syria?", Middle East Quarterly, X, 1 (Winter 2003) ♠
42. Dale van Atta, "World's Most Dangerous Leaders", Readers Digest (July 2007) ♠
43. Jim Muir, ""Bashar al-Assad's Tightening Grip on Syria Ten Years On", BBC News, 17 July 2010 ♠
44. Joan Juliet Buck, "Asma al-Assad: a Rose in the Desert", Vogue (March 2011)—the piece may be seen at www.seraphicpress.com ♠
45. Transcript of interview with Joan Juliet Buck by Melissa Block: "A Look Into the World of Syria's First Lady", www.npr.org/2012/4/20/151058724/a-look-into-the-world-of-syria's-first-lady ♠
46. Andrew Tabler, In The Lion's Den: an Eyewitness Account of Washington's Battle With Syria (New York, Lawrence Hill, 2011). His website would carry some of the most strident calls to action for the West on intervention in Syria: www.andrewtabler.com ♠
47. Patrick Seale, " Is This the End of the Assad Dynasty?, Viewpoint, 13 July 2012, Online Issue 109, www.viewpointonline.net/is-this-the-end-of-the-assad-dynasty-patrick-seale-html ♠
48. Paton, The Modern Syrians, ch. XIV ♠
49. Philip S. Khoury, "Syrian Urban Politics in Transition: the Quarters of Damascus During the French Mandate," International Journal of Middle East Studies,16, 4 (November, 1984) ♠
50. 12 See Sami M. Moubayed, The Politics of Damascus, 1920-1946 (Damascus, Tlass, 1999), ch. II. ♠
51. Colin Thubron, Face to Damascus (London, Vintage, 1996 edn) ♠
52. Aisha Darwish, "Qanawat Quarter: a Strategy and Instruments for Sustainable Rehabilitation", SB10mad Conference Proceedings, www.sb10mad.com/ponencias/archivos/b/B005.pdf; and Kotsuko Matsubara, "Urban Conservation Based on the International Cooperation—a Case Study of the Qanawat South Area, Damascus, 2011 International Symposium on City Planning, http://infoshako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/~matsub/2-11.pdf ♠
53. Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987 edn) ♠
54. Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (New York, Schocken, 1989) ♠
55. T.E. Lawrence, Crusader Castles (New York, Oxford University Press, 1989 edn) ♠
56. Geoffrey Rice, a classmate of mine at Canterbury, student and later colleague of "JJ", kindly gave me a copy of a memorial volume he edited in memory of the great man - G.W. Rice (ed.), Muslims & Mongols: Essays on Medieval Asia by J.J. Saunders (Christchurch, University of Canterbury, 1977). It contains an excellent account of the Saunders career. ♠
57. Gertrude Bell, The Desert and the Sown (London, Virago, 1985 edn) ♠
58. Jonathan Holt Shannon, Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria (Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 2006), , pp. 2. 24 ♠
59. David Finkel, The Good Soldiers (New York, Farrer Strauss Giroux, 2009) ♠
60. Vijay Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (New York, Knopf, 2006). The book formed the basis for the film, Green Zone, starring Matt Damon ♠
61. A Handbook of Syria (Including Palestine) (London, Naval Intelligence Department, 1919), p. 109 ♠
62. There are interesting references to this clash of knowledges, for example, in Ken Follett's literary work set in the 14th century, World Without End (London, Pan, 2007)—Newman Burdett put me onto this ♠
63. The book in question was Patrick Seale, Asad: the Struggle for the Middle East (Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1990) ♠
64. Rafik Schami, Taste of a City (Berlin, Haus, 2006) ♠
65. Rafik Schami, The Dark Side of Love (New York, Interlink, 2009) ♠
66. Baedeker, p. 312 ♠
67. Eli Smith and Mikhail Meshakah, "A Treatise on Arab Music, Chiefly From a Work by Mikhail Meshakah of Damascus," Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1, 3 (1847), p. 173 ♠
68. The Modern Syrians, pp. 151-4 ♠
69. Richard Boggs, Hammaming in the Sham: a Journey Through the Turkish Baths of Damascus, Aleppo and Beyond (London, Garnet, 2011) ♠
70. Daughter of Damascus, pp. 11-16 ♠
71. E.W.G. Masterman, "The Water Supply of Damascus," The Biblical World", 21, 2 (February, 1903) ♠
72. Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (New York, Library of America, 1984 edn) ♠
73. Tom Darley, With The Ninth Light Horse in the Great War, (Adelaide, 1926), pp 156-8 ♠
74. Catherine Tobin, Shadows of the East (London, Longman, 1855) ♠
75. Bouthaina Shaaban, "The Hidden History of Arab Feminism", MS Magazine, May-June 1993. Ironically, in 2012 Bouthaiana Shaaban, the feminist, was placed on the UN's list of individuals to be subject to sanctions because of her work as the Assad regime's international spokesperson ♠
76. Richardson, pp.472-3 ♠
77. Baedeker, p. 306 ♠
78. Ayman Debes, Damascus For You (Damascus, Trans-Orient, 2009) ♠
79. Malu Halasa and Rana Salan, The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie (San Francisco, Chronicle, 2008) ♠
80. Gertrude Bell, p.146 ♠
81. James A. Reilly, "From Workshops to Sweatshops: Damascus Textiles and the World-Economy in the Last Ottoman Century," Review, XVI, 2 (Spring, 1993) ♠
82. Naval Staff Intelligence, A Handbook of Syrian (Including Palestine), pp.282-7 ♠
83. Theo Padnos, "The Cult: the Twisted, Terrifying Last Days of Assad's Syria", The New Republic, 4 October 2011 carries something of this line. ♠
Table of Contents
Cover
Table of Contents
Preface
Prelude
Boutique Days
Not A Palace
The Jesus Minaret
A Manager From Melbourne
A Taxi to Work
Aiding and Abetting
Houses Around the Corner
The Souk Life
Souk Sarouja
The Carriers
Buying a Shirt
Man of La Kemba
An Antique Seller
Another Home at Brokar
Eating Out
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Coffee
Sweets Are Us, and We Are Nuts
Hubble Bubble
Backgammon and Cards
The Animal Kingdom
A Fighter Pilot at the Bakery
Father, Son and Holy Ghost
Al Midan
Qanawat and Other Heritage
Salah ah-Din's Shadow
Car Cultures
The Moving Image
Books and Music
Water
A Problem of Perception
Trysting
Tony Blair Should Live in The House
An Arabian Horse Journey
Straight Street Weaver
Careers
A Genuine Kilim
Living With/out Language
Hammam Bakri Spectacle
A Road From Damascus
Last Day
Lacuna
Bibliography
Meet the Author
Endnotes