“We are gathered on the balcony in Jabal al-Weibdeh. Hisham is playing guitar, Bassam is in a bad mood and gets irritated when I record him. Saad arrives with a plastic bag full of books, which they gather around and thumb through eagerly, excitedly discussing a new Arabic translation of Edward Said’s Orientalism, just published in Cairo”
The Iraqi Suitcase by Laura Waddington
Source: Mahmoud Darwish reads Tibaq / Antithesis. Homage to Edward Said. Tamerih (YouTube)