February 21, 2004
A rubaiyat you could be proud of
Began reading Amin Maalouf's Samarkand,
which chronicles the adventures of a young Omar Khayyam.
The novel, originally in French, mixes a fantastic modern-day tale of the manuscript's redisovery with an account of its creation, just as the Seljuks were advancing across Persia.
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Marsh Arabs
This picture appeared on the front page of today's New York Times.
A few months ago, the Week in Review section had a heartbreaking series of photographs on a similar theme.
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