Lebanese Bloggers: On the streets of New York.
I realize that by now, talking and posting about the N.Y.C. meeting, would be redundant, and old news. Most Bloggers who attended, already wrote/posted something about the most wonderful gathering that was held on Saturday, October 7th, 2006.Hahem, the scribe, launched first with his scribbles, and reported our dinner to nostalgic perfection.
Mirvat, the hostess, and the main organizer of the event, blogged it here.
Jooj wrote a very heartfelt piece, and arch.memory painted another to the minute detail, just the way a star architect would, while gitanes-legeres and maya, never missed a beat.
If you really want to understand a city, know its people, and merge into its spectacle, you have to walk its streets. And it just so happens that in any given gathering, the Lebanese are one of those cultures that spend more time saying goodbye, leaving at the door, than inside coming in.
Here's how we took on the streets of New York hat Saturday.
For most of us, it was the first time we ever meet. Apart from our literature, poetry, and drawings, we were unknown to one another; but there was something beautiful and mystical in the air, and we most certainly didn't seem strangers. One could have sworn we were friends for years.
Besides our common identity, history, and memory, through our blogs, we all have willingly shared many intimate thoughts already. We have commented, comforted, and inspired one another in hardest times... That made us closer than anything.
Here's to my Lebanese Blogger Friends!
posted by _z. @ 10:06 PM
13 Comments:
it felt like that night was too short to really get to know everyone well... glad to have met you.
love (mostly) the first pic..the walk sign is unbeatable!
yeah but you still missed out on the real fun :p haha.. no it was great meeting you and i love the post!
mazbout _z.. like an old friends' reunion.. i hope all's well.
i sense inno picture 3 has a story behind it :)
Congratulations!
That must have been soo exciting, all these Lebanese urbanites together!
Thanks for posting the pictures _Z!
:) A reunion indeed.
Ehhhhh, feeling nostalgic now!
Thx for the pics Z.
It was great seeing and meeting all of you, really. The gathering couldn't have been any better.
wish you were there zee. next time?
Definitely next time _Z, just give me a bit of forewarning. After all, I live about 3 hours away from the heart of Manhattan.
I love the pictures!
thanx z.
can't wait...
ahla bel sayyid hashem.
This looks like a med school reunion to me:)
_z, thanks for the pics (though I look awful)! It was so good to meet you; had a great time at the Guggenheim! Yalla, next time north of the border?
the pleasure is all mine Ash. great time at the Guggenheim indeed.
north of the border, akeed, why not.
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