Jara Market - Jebel Amman

Standing testament to a proud urban heritage that overlooks the Jebel Amman



A view down the street that is closed on Friday afternoons for the Jara Craft Market.




Khalid al Marashideh - teacher of arabic - jewellery dealer in Jerash by Hadrian's Arch - and philosopher of sorts - he spoke to me in prose and at first told me he was a sailor -"I am a liar" he then said, "walking the seas of life, but even the ocean is too shallow for my ships".
For him poets and poems are dead ideas; and here's why, "the alphabet has 24 letters in English and 29 in Arabic - there are 29 bars that jail a person with vision - like Othello - I like Shakespeare," he said. You should have been a writer, says me.
"As vision gets bigger, language gets smaller" says Khalid and as I bade him farewell he says "the most beautiful poem is the one not yet written".
And he didn't once try to sell me anything but told me to read 'Season of Migration to the North' by Sudanese writer Tayib Salih ... think I will. J