Early morning, Thursday, April 19, 2007 • 6 responses
I just returned from a 10-day mixed business-vacation trip abroad. The business was as always in Germany—the vacation to the city of Istanbul, not Constantinople.
I’ve been wanting to go to Istanbul since 1991 or so, when I came across a series of scholarly articles on the Hagia Sophia during an architecture course. Medieval arabic cultures have always fascinated me, partially because I’ve always been confounded by the complexity of their aesthetics and philosophy. …