Maaloula, Syria: An Epic of Rock, Language, and Prayer

معلولا، سوريا: ملحمة الصخر واللغة والصلاة

By Architect Imad Darouich

Ten short chapters read Maaloula, the Syrian mountain town whose houses enter the rock, through its surviving Aramaic, the sanctuaries of Saint Thecla and Saints Sergius and Bacchus, and its wounds in the war years, followed by an imagined story of a woman who teaches her distant granddaughter an old Aramaic song by phone.

Format

PDF ebook

Languages

Arabic and English

Collection

Buildings & Cities