Three Lamps

the staff laid it on for us in these lavish surroundings, all 4,365 of them, and for our Turkish companion, who was recognised to be so as soon as he set foot in the door: Merhaba, nasılsın! some of the food was delicious, some was chips. on a mission

We know the word medressa or madrasa (or مدرسة) to mean a school, a place of learning and a meeting-place, often, if not usually, attached to a mosque. Here children receive teaching in the Qur'an, Al Qur'an or القرآن, note the Arabic spelling which has only

I'm wearing the reason why we had to go back, an NZD20 Egyptian gellabaya. . . so for the shopping. . . but also the embrace of what at first was easy to reject, the kitsch, which is easy to dismiss as failed camp, camp not yet recognised to be, what is