Arabia’s lament

“The city is beautiful, surrounded by the sea and the forest, but like any Arab city, it is dreary; ruled by tyranny, hunger, bribery, corruption, religion, hatred, ignorance, cruelty and murder. ... [Yet] In a nuclear age, a space age, an age of expanding minds, they still rule us with the law of the Bedouins’ god.” – Haidar Haidar (quoted from "A Banquet for Seaweed")

* Haidar is a Syrian writer and novelist. The city he describes is the Algerian town of Buna. Read more about the work here.