![]() I wrote poetry, was full of creative inspiration, and constantly criticized the Army, military equipment, and everything connected with it. A symbolic story is related to this event, as I never intended to be a cadet. First, I moved to a small town, then to the capital of Syria before moving to the Soviet Union, where I entered a military school. The history of my native Latakia is connected with Mother because it's named after Laodicea, the mother of its founder Seleucus I Nicator.Īs I grew older, I moved out of my childhood home. Since childhood, I considered the earth as a living being, as a Mother and a giver. I grew up close to nature, and the land gave my family everything. Nevertheless, I managed to visit the world in which people lived thousands of years ago, knowing nothing about modern civilization and its so-called benefits. ![]() We lived in a clay house, and we had no electricity, water, telephone, or TV. I was born in the province of Latakia into a very low-income family. Hares Youssef is a futurist thinker, digital economics ideologist, philanthropist, writer and artist. ![]()
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Just as he becomes enamored with a girl in a Renoir work who returns his affection, other paintings begin changing and behaving strangely, and reports surface that paintings in America, Great Britain, and Russia are doing the same. Seventeen-year-old Julien, whose mother runs the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, has recently learned that the museum’s paintings come to life by night. ![]() A cross between The Da Vinci Code and The Night at the Museum, this sophisticated fantasy from Whitney (When You Were Here) borrows from art history and ancient mythology as chaos erupts at museums around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel introduces readers to young Alexander, Laird of Kinfairlie, who has three unmarried sisters. If You Like Claire Delacroix Books, You’ll Love…Ĭlaire Delacroix Synopsis: The Beauty Bride is the first book in the Jewels of Kinfairlie series by Claire Delacroix. 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