“any concession or abrogation of existing rights tended to become the thin end of a wedge before which other rights were apt to disintegrate. Chairs, they feared, would become wooden benches, wooden benches iron benches, iron benches fixed stone benches, with the corollary that covering from above against sun and rain and from the side against cold was equally a matter of humanity; so that the Waqf would one day find houses belonging to others erected against their wishes upon their own property. Such exaggerated suspicions had been for centuries at the root of most of the constantly recurring trouble between the various Christian rites at the Holy Sepulchre”.
umm al fahm
In viaggio con i Radiodervish
Non c’è che fare, direbbe una mia amica scrittrice di vaglia, avvocata, siciliana, londinese, gran donna. Non c’è che fare, lo confesso, i Radiodervish sono diventati la colonna sonora tutta personale di questa mia lungasosta mediorientale. E’ successo per caso, perché Nabil Ben Salameh, alcuni anni fa, presentò il mio Arabi Invisibili alla Feltrinelli di …