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MYAL - My Aleppo (Hardcover)
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MYAL - My Aleppo (Hardcover)
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This title includes a book & CD. Aleppo is not perceived
outside the Arab world as a "metropolis" - at the same limo,
though, the city with a five thousand year old history is one of
the world's oldest cities. In this way, "MYAL (My Aleppo)" is to be
understood as a special study about the development of the term
metropolis and asks the fundamental question how a "metropolis"
should be defined. Today, the city of almost three million people
is the industrial and commercial capital of Syria, where, in a
fascinating way, tradition and modernity, and East and West meet.
"MYAL (My Aleppo)" attempts not only to show the "sights" of
Aleppo, but to show the "inner sights" from the life of the
Aleppines: city structures as well as life and customs that have
been developed over centuries and now are subject to a rapid
process of transformation due to altered social, economic, and
political conditions. These are more everyday images of local
people and foreigners, visible and invisible, from the narrow
quarters of the Old City and the Souk with its noisy intimacy, the
view from the Citadel out across the city, and from submerging into
the partially strange and hidden worlds of Aleppo and its
inhabitants. At the heart of the book are photos from the period
around 1900 taken, among others, from the archive of Poche-Marrache
and the archive from Thierry, Grandin, as well as photographs of
different photographers from more recent years. These images are
supplemented by articles From different authors about daily life in
Aleppo. During the production of this book, a mood of change
manifested itself in Syrian society, the results of which are not
yet foreseeable. So, the articles in this volume perhaps document
something that will (or may) soon belong in part to the past. The
CD with songs from Abed Azrie from Aleppo completes the triad of
the city along with the articles and photographs.
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