On the road to Damascus

In about an hour I’ll be leaving Beirut to go to Damascus for a few days. Returning here Wednesday. Then next weekend (God, or mainly the Iranian visa authorities, willing) we’ll be going to Iran, to a conference on Islam and Democracy in Mashhad.
I’m unclear what the possibilities for posting from Damascus will be. But even if I can’t post, I’ll try to write some things that I can put up once I get back here Wednesday.
Hey, who knows what transformational lightning might strike on the road to Damascus this time? One of the biggest things that happened to me on it in the past is that, stuck at the border awaiting permission to enter one time in the late 1970s, I read a book that ended up changing my life.
No, it wasn’t the Bible. Some day I might tell you that whole story….

9 thoughts on “On the road to Damascus”

  3. Have a good travel Helena.. May be you’d like some reading for the travel and may be others would enjoy it as well.
    The ICRC has funded an interesting study concerning “The Roots of Behaviour in War”. The study investigates what induce fighters to breach the Geneva Conventions and what could be done to improve their implementation. It can be ordered or downloaded in an English PDF (2.8 meg) It’s not a difficult reading :
    http://tinyurl.com/65okf
    Another reading is the new Counterinsurgency Manual edited by the US military :
    http://tinyurl.com/4tzjw

  4. Good luck Helena. Your journey plans ring of Frodo venturing all the way into Mordor.
    Do you have the program for the Islam and Democarcy conference? Would be nice to read the agenda.
    E. Bilpe

  5. C’mon Helen. Your loyal readers want to know the story. Enlightenment isn’t just yours, ya know.
    Thanks for your blog.
    Bob Consoli

  7. I shan’t tell you the name of the book. But as I was reading it I became enthralled with the clarity of its writing… In 1982, I got to meet the author, and two years later we got married. We still are.

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