Annie Q Syed » south africa http://annieqsyed.com Trial of Words: Writings and Fragments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:58:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ Under the spell of Jacaranda Trees http://annieqsyed.com/2011/10/under-the-spell-of-jacaranda-trees/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2011/10/under-the-spell-of-jacaranda-trees/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:41:00 +0000 annie http://aqs.sellfastinternational.com/2011/10/15/under-the-spell-of-jacaranda-trees/ I received a note from a kindred connection—and we share many connections—Linda Holllier in response to my latest, “The Marriage of Storytelling and Writing”, over at my website, and she began by quoting what I had written…

“where stories are shared under big jacaranda trees in South Africa about the color purple and dreams inside bones“… reading your latest I immediately thought of this photo I took so I am sending it on.

Also delighted to know that there is someone else who prints out articles and highlights passages! lol

By the way, October is the month in South Africa that the Jacaranda trees blossom.

 

Photo by Linda Hollier

...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2011/10/under-the-spell-of-jacaranda-trees/feed/ 2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ Still Sundays http://annieqsyed.com/2010/11/still-sundays-22/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2010/11/still-sundays-22/#comments Sun, 07 Nov 2010 08:27:57 +0000 annie http://annieqsyed.com/?p=1575 November 7th.

Centrifuge known and that which can’t be known. Orhan Pamuk. Duke Ellington. A love without drum roll of epiphanies.

If you would like to know what Still Sundays is about, please take a quick gander here and just read the third paragraph. Thanks.

It’s Sunday morning in Prague.

It is still a concealed dawn and the smell from the night rain stubbornly loiters on the cobblestone streets that echoed inattentive pedestrians yesterday. The magnitude of quietness in Prague is distinct: every stone has a story, every turn a whisper, every ally leads to a dim lantern that doesn’t reveal enough.

My mother and I arrived on a Tuesday ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2010/11/still-sundays-22/feed/ 7 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ Who is an “American”? Who is an “African”? http://annieqsyed.com/2009/12/who-is-an-american-who-is-an-african/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2009/12/who-is-an-american-who-is-an-african/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:52:41 +0000 annie http://annieqsyed.com/?p=382 South Africa, with or without the awareness required by majority of its citizens on this topic, is silently defining who is an “African”…

These two articles are befitting the age old discussion: what does it mean to be an American…

and what I discovered this time around in S.A.: what does it mean to be an African…given the xenophobia against Africans from other countries…

Africa 2009: Identity, Citizenship, and Nation Building by M. Mawere

and from the Christmas 2009 Edition of The Economist:

Going to America: The Greatest Strength About America Is That People Want To Live Here

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