Achingly beautiful by @ProfessorEA. Speaks to many of our experiences. ”For what is the meaning of life,after all,than coffee&tea&talk w loved ones?” Of all we have been denied by #syria disaster,I’d trade anything to have that again w my aunt in Damascus nytimes.com/2018/07/21/opi…
i'm speaking of who readers of #TheHomeThatWasOurCountry A Memoir of #Syria know as "Suha." 5 years after leaving Damascus for the last time, I saw her again in another Arab country. She had brought w/her our favorite roaster's Arabic coffee w/cardamom. That فنجان was everything
if you've never read @ProfessorEA also achingly beautiful piece about her husband's passing, which gutted me then, fix that now: newyorker.com/magazine/2015/…
In the final chapter of The Home That Was, I write about watching vigilantly as my aunt made the last pot of coffee we would share, trying to commit to memory why hers always tasted best. I am luckier than others, I know, who will never share a cup again w/those they have lost.
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