What's Thong with Damascus?
Leila's Secret?
More image shattering from those mysterious oriental bazaars in downtown Damascus. Everyone's a Haifa Wehbé when they put the chadoor away!
posted by Nur-al-Cubicle | 11:16 PM
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Leila's Secret?
More image shattering from those mysterious oriental bazaars in downtown Damascus. Everyone's a Haifa Wehbé when they put the chadoor away!
5 Comments:
Read Mohja Kahf on Arabic love poetry (from chaste to explicit is the subtitle). Read Sex and the Umma this week, for a Mohja story accompanied by a photo very similar to the above. Dr. Mohja blows my mind...
PS Mohja Kahf was born in Damascus but lives in the States now.
Thanks for the links, Leila. BTW, I was trying to come up with a well-recognized Arab name for the "Victoria's Secret" implication and came up with...yours! Hope you don't mind.
Hmmm....Nur, Alia, Rania, Nadjat, Yasmine, I forgot about Yasmine! I should have used that...
No worries. As I was signing in at the RAWI conference (Radius of Arab WrIters) I heard someone yelling my name, turned around, realized that of course there were going to be about 20 Leilas attending. Occasionally I introduced myself as Leila 17, because I wasn't even the second or the third Leila in line.
Here's my post about the RAWI poetry reading, Kallimuna (speak to us). These poets are on fire. There's a new young generation of Arab American poets, some of whom are influenced by the poetry slam movement - all of whom are incendiary.
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