Wednesday, October 03, 2007
By the Sea
I was reading that in antiquity the seaside Palestinian community of Gaza was noted as a center of fine arts and crafts in regular contact with the universities of Cairo and the Phoenician port of Beirut nearby. The regular exchange of goods and ideas from Andalusia, Libya, and Anatolia fostered a cosmopolitan atmosphere still alive in these Mediterranean people now sequestered in a prison-state. Perhaps in time Gaza and Beirut will once again become renowned seaside resorts. Heaven knows they could use a little R&R.
