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Monastery of the Moon

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Monastery of the Moon

Traces of a lost stonecutters' art

Joumana Medlej
Jan 12
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Monastery of the Moon

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This poetic title is the translation of the name of an actual place, the town of Deir el-Qamar1 in the Chouf region of Lebanon. No matter how far I travel and how much I see, Deir el-Qamar remains one of the most lovely places I know. For reasons too far-reaching to go into, the Chouf as a whole has been preserved from rampant urbanisation, and the trad…

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