Here is the view from the balcony off my room at The New Imperial Hotel. No wonder Amedeo thought we were sleeping “in a castle.”
Monthly Archives: May 2012
May
28
From Dubai to Jerusalem
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
I am sitting in my hotel room just inside Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City. I arrived here a couple of weeks ago with my wife, Moonira, and son, Amedeo. We flew in from Dubai where I was on a magazine assignment and where we spent a week enjoying the gleaming excesses of the city. […]
May
05
Considerably better digs…
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
Over the course of my travel for the Walls book, I slept in a snore-rattled dorm room in Tucson, a dank Belfast hostel, a tent in a desert refugee camp, a Moroccan hotel surrounded by solvent-huffing teens, and a police station in northeast India. Having paid my accommodation penance, the magazine assignment gods – or […]
May
05
“A Hymn in Aramaic”
posted by Marcello Di Cintio
The May issue of Alberta Views magazine contains my profile of Calgarian Chaldean priest Abbé Noël Farman. Farman was born and educated in Iraq, was part of Saddam’s army in the 1970s, and fled the Iraq for Canada in the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion. He speaks a handful of languages – including ancient Aramaic […]
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