aziz
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08:21:28 pm on May 29, 2008 | # | |
Meccahattan: Mecca’s new crop of 130 skyscrapers.
Mr. Moo quotes poetry by way of admonition.
UPDATE - I did not weep for Bamiyan.
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razib 9:36 pm on May 29, 2008 | #
…too bad i’ll never get to see ‘em as a tourist
flickr for mecca always has that area around the kabba….
muse 1:17 am on May 30, 2008 | #
This really bothers me. There’s something soul-draining about even the thought of Starbucks anywhere near the Kaaba, let alone this new onslaught of visual cacophony that’s about to be unleashed.
aziz 5:28 am on May 30, 2008 | #
what bothers me far worse about this, is how much history has already been erased from Mecca, and how much more will be obliterated over time as these schemes proceed.
aziz 5:37 am on May 30, 2008 | #
though i have to admit that when i do hajj, i am probably going to score a latte at that starbucks. and twitter about it, too.
Willow 6:00 pm on May 30, 2008 | #
Gives new meaning to that hippie song “They’ve paved paradise/and put up a parking lot.”
razib 6:24 pm on May 30, 2008 | #
u guys ever talked to a meccan native? it’s a pretty normal city with normal stuff going down; i talked to this guy raised in mecca once at a wine bar. pretty weird.
Al-Kanz 3:32 am on May 31, 2008 | #
see here : http://www.al-kanz.org/2008/04/12/hajj-2008-plan-et-maquette-des-chantiers-de-la-mecque-et-de-medine/