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AL-LEMBI GARDEN... DOGS, HISTORY, AND AN ATTEMPT TO BREATHE
published on khatt30.com
January 20,2022
"AL-LEMBI GARDEN... DOGS, HISTORY, AND AN ATTEMPT TO BREATHE"
At first the area was named after him "Lord Edmund Allenby", then it was changed to Kafr Abdo, which is the name of a village in Suez whose people and the guerrillas participated in a popular resistance movement to the British occupation.
"When a desire for tranquility overwhelms me, I climb the plateau and take refuge in Sir Allenby Park, or as everyone calls it, the Limby Garden, which is located in the middle of the Alexandria “Kafr Abdo” neighborhood. On the grass of the garden designed in the English Garden City style, my self spreads out, and I try to discover that branching movement of the grass roots above and below the ground, and the garden’s various visitors discover me. We exchange silent greetings, and the greetings are repeated over and over again to become familiarity. Speculation mounts about each other, about our secrets, our lives, our tragedies and our joys. As for the new, unexpected faces, they are content with silent, fleeting eavesdropping on a girl walking around alone or sitting cross-legged on the grass, looking up at the sky. When she finishes reciting her secret prayer, she exchanges voyeurism with them, and weaves in her imagination possible stories for these various faces. I think of Deleuze and his Rhizomes , and I also think that this neighborhood arose to some degree due to the fatigue of a donkey."....etc.
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