light-play

Updated: May 2, 2025

As the tremendous light-play of the Eastern sunsets faded away, we would gather in little groups in the courtyard of our mosque its minaret towering black against a turquoise sky and talk fitfully of the little happenings of the day, while the Arabs murmured gutturally around us. Occasionally, one of them would burst into a quavering, hot-blooded tribal love-song.

Alexander Aaronsohn - With the Turks in Palestine