by Afshin Molavi | Apr 20, 2020 | Caravanserai, NewPost
The men and women of our humble Caravanserai are catching up on their reading in these Covid-19 times. Overheard: a veteran seafarer on merchant ships across the oceans was re-reading Herman Melville’s classic, Moby Dick, that great chronicle of 19th century...
by Afshin Molavi | Apr 4, 2020 | Caravanserai, NewPost
New Silk Road Monitor Memo To: The good people of our humble Caravanserai Re: Library Update Dear Fellow Travelers, On this day of 5 April, in the Gregorian Calendar of the Year 2020, we are enriched by the addition of seven new books to our humble, unworthy library....
by Afshin Molavi | Apr 1, 2020 | Caravanserai, NewPost, Poetry
Overheard in the caravanserai: a merchant, reflecting on the fleeting nature of life, reciting from Edward Fitzgerald’s version of the Rubaiyat of the great hakim Abu’l Fath Omar ibn Ibrahim Khayyam, otherwise known as Omar Khayyam. “Oh, come with old...
