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MediaDB / «Notes of a Foreigner" Olga Al Kattan: download fb2, read online
About the book: year / Categorically dividing Eastern traditions into bad and very bad, such as: a silent woman in a black hijab, Arab terrorists and endless wars in Palestine and Lebanon, what do we actually know about them? And what do they know about us? Gentiles for each other, with frightened curiosity we peer into a foreign culture, listen to a prayer in a foreign language - and we do not hear, we do not see, we do not understand, and therefore, rejecting, we do not accept. Two different, radically opposite worlds are afraid of each other, and fight tooth and nail... But both the crimson bell ringing and the muezzin’s drawn-out prayer call for only one thing - love, peace and the joy of being. You just have to open your eyes and heart and try to see, hear and understand it! If this is your first time in the Arab East, do not be afraid. Fairy tales about harems, terror and the Islamization of the world (which George Bush intimidated at every opportunity) will remain fairy tales. The real everyday life of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and other Arab countries has nothing in common with this. To understand the mentality of the Arabs, it is not enough to read scary stories about them and watch horror TV movies. To understand someone else's world, you need to immerse yourself in it. Completely. Dive headlong, holding your breath for the last time.…