The enigma of the Eastern Beauty
"Never have so many fine minds, at one the same time, delved into the abyss that is Asia....Everywhere... the East has come to preoccupy the mind and the imagination"....Victor Hugo 1822
To Celebrate
Early definition of "Celebrate" related to power and acts of declaration; "celebrate: holy, make famous, to publish, to commend, to keepe solemile "earliest English dictionary by Robert Cawdrey published in 1604.
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Lebanon
Dhour El Choueir is a mountain town in Lebanon. It overlooks the city of Beirut and the Mediterranean sea. It is one of Mount Lebanon's popular summer resorts. It is known for mastering the Dabke. A folkloric circle and line dance representing honour, culture, beauty and courtship. Performed at weddings and celebrations, it is a treasured tradition. In August 2011, a group in Dhour El Choueir set a new world record with a human chain of 5,050.
Dia De Muertos
"The Mexican...is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. True, there is as much fear in his attitude as in that of others, but at least death is not hidden away: he looks at it face to face, with impatience, disdain or irony." Labyrinth of Solitude by Mexican writer Octavio Paz.
Under Bedouin Skies
Atlal pf the earliest of tribal poets by, Imru al-Qays, dates from 1782: "Stay - Let us weep at the remembrance of our beloved, at the sight of the station where her tent was raised, by the edge of yon bending sands between Dahul and Haumal, Tudih and Mikra; a station, the marks of which are not wholly effaced, though the south wind and the north have woven the twisted sand."
