First Well: a Bethlehem Boyhood (p)University of Arkansas Press, 1995 - 209 من الصفحات |
المحتوى
III | 3 |
IV | 9 |
V | 17 |
VI | 23 |
VII | 28 |
VIII | 40 |
IX | 44 |
X | 49 |
XIV | 99 |
XV | 117 |
XVI | 124 |
XVII | 133 |
XVIII | 140 |
XIX | 147 |
XX | 153 |
XXI | 164 |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Arabic Arabic language asked back home Baghdad beautiful began Beirut Bethlehem Bishara boys brother Yusuf calligraphy carried cauterization chickens church climbed colors continued copybook courtyard divine liturgy donkey door eggs English entered eyes floor friends front Fulla gate gave grandmother halva hand head heard hermit Ibrahim imagined Jabra Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Jaffa Gate Jerusalem kerosene lamp Khalil al-Sakakini later laughed looked Lord Malik Manger monastery morning mother moved Nablus Naoom never night olive Palestine pencil piasters play playground pomegranate principal returned home road rock sang saying shoes shouted singing Square stone stood story strange Suddenly Sulayman Syriac Teacher Jabboor Teacher Jiryis tell terraced plot tire took turned University of Arkansas voice waited walked words write young
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة xix - Whenever we wanted to move to a new house to live in it, the first thing we asked about was the well. Was there a well in the courtyard of the house?
الصفحة xix - Wells were of as many kinds as houses. The mouth stones of the wells were also of many kinds. The mouth stone of a well is very much like a historical record of both the house and its well: with the passage of years, the bucket ropes that are lowered into the well and pulled up from it leave their tracks on the mouth stone.