Latest posts by Animesh RawalI found myself in Kadıköy, which is the center of the Asian side of Istanbul (side note: as I realised later, the Asian side of Istanbul is a lot more European and vice versa!)... Continue reading →...
Posted on 23 April 2011 | 7:22 pm
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So yes, I needed to go back to Syria. Sure. Only problem was that I had a single entry visa and I was already stamped out. If the Turks didn't let me in, I was in no man's land, unable to get into Turkey and unable to return to Syria. I literally had nowhere to go. And to think that my Canadian visa...
Posted on 19 April 2011 | 1:04 pm
Read post...I discovered that Syria is actually a secular country. The mistake we make is that we equate the word "Arab" with the people and places in "The Gulf". Whereas "The Gulf" is only one small portion of the Arab World. The majority of the world's Arabs can not relate to (and sometimes even resent) th...
Posted on 15 April 2011 | 3:19 am
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