I haven't updated this thing in A REALLY LONG TIME ( Read more... )

A Song to learn from...
This is a song that I enjoy very much because of the subject. I'll try to translate as best as I can, but I don't know all the words... the Title means "In the Narrow Bosporus". This is about a Greek Orthodox Christian and a Turkish Muslim upset over the things going on against each other's people, since they are friends.

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Samaritan music, which is supposed to be a direct descendent of ancient Hebrew music is performed in the EXACT same way as Byzantine music. Heck, their synogogues even face east like our churches do.

...I think this goes to show something about Eastern Orthodoxy.

Vocal MusicSamaritan music is vocal music, unaccompanied by instruments, handed ( Read more... )

Aproximately 6 months and 8 days until I return here:


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I see Israel is starting another war... I wonder how much land they will take from Lebanon now ( Read more... )

I knew we would loose to penalty kicks... we SUCK at them and on top of that we had a substitute goalie ( Read more... )

What is quoted below is some dude in some community's statement about the history of the Holy Land. I found what he said CRIME TO HISTORY so much that I have an entire (abridged) history of the land. It was so long to wrote and I'm so happy with it that I decided to share it:

"keep in mind that the Jews controlled that land from about 1100BC up ( Read more... )

- u call your grandmother "nona" and your grandfather "nono ( Read more... )

"Identity Card"
by: Mahmoud Darwish ( Read more... )

Yeah so... I went to a Turkish restaurant this weekend and it was SOOOOOO good. The food is quite wonderful. It's like almost the same as Greek food, with a slight difference.

Not to mention that the girls who work there are straight off the boat and some of the most beautiful girls I've ever seen in my life... I mean like... wow.

İstanbul'a ( Read more... )