Saturday, 30 April 2011

Dreaming in Arabic

How I fell in love with a language, discovered a forgotten king and realized my part in a historical injustice that carries on to this day


Bagaimana saya jatuh cinta dengan bahasa, mencari seorang rajadilupakan dan menyedari bahagian saya dalam ketidakadilanbersejarah yang membawa pada hari ini

Last King of Damascus

Thomas Lawrence has been sent to Damascus to meet his grandfather and learn about his heritage. He's not sure that he wants to listen to an old man drone on about family history but this trip is going to unfold in unexpected ways. It will leave him hot, thirsty, tired ... and in the desert. He's going to meet a family he never knew he had and find out that he has a name to be proud of.


Thomas Lawrence telah dihantar ke Damsyik untuk bertemudatuknya dan belajar tentang warisan. Dia tidak yakin bahawa iaingin mendengar sebuah dengung orang tua tentang sejarahkeluarga tapi perjalanan ini akan terungkap dengan cara yang takterduga. Ini akan meninggalkan dia panas, haus, lelah ... dan dipadang pasir. Dia akan bertemu dengan keluarga dia tidak pernahtahu dia dan mendapati bahawa ia mempunyai nama yang boleh dibanggakan.


Death Among the Dinosaurs

Darby Hollinger only made one mistake in life. He mentioned Intelligent Design in one of his papers and immediately lost his place in the respectable world of science. When he attempts to commit suicide, he wakes up, not in heaven or hell, but in an academic world that no one knew existed, one where any scientific idea is acceptable as long as it is viable.