how to get from Bethlehem to Damascus in eight hours. Leave the phoenix centre at 7am in a servis that takes you directly to the jericho station for 50 shekels. Try not to get stuck in the centre due to the somnolent state of the gate man. If in doubt, get the servis driver to bang on the door of his hut so that he knows that someone wants to escape. Having successfully navigated the checkpoints, arrive slightly bemused at jericho station whereupon your luggage...

So a hectic past few weeks fraught with tension came to a dramatic and slightly absurd end with the exam today. But what have we been doing for the two interceding weeks? Upon our triumphant return from Iraq we submitted ourselves to the pain and suffering that is the Arabic bahth. No, that is not a typo. The bahth was the essay that we were supposed to be working on in excessive detail and care, for which I spent countless horrendous hours painstakingly writing...

So a hectic past few weeks fraught with tension came to a dramatic and slightly absurd end with the exam today. But what have we been doing for the two interceding weeks? Upon our triumphant return from Iraq we submitted ourselves to the pain and suffering that is the Arabic bahth. No, that is not a typo. The bahth was the essay that we were supposed to be working on in excessive detail and care, for which I spent countless horrendous hours painstakingly writing...

So a hectic past few weeks fraught with tension came to a dramatic and slightly absurd end with the exam today. But what have we been doing for the two interceding weeks? Upon our triumphant return from Iraq we submitted ourselves to the pain and suffering that is the Arabic bahth. No, that is not a typo. The bahth was the essay that we were supposed to be working on in excessive detail and care, for which I spent countless horrendous hours painstakingly writing...

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