Paulino Toledo's conference will be held at the Instituto Cervantes in Damascus
on 13 July at 19H. , Refers generally to the work of the Guatemalan writer Enrique Gómez Carrillo, a brief review of the history he wrote about the East during his trip he made to the Eastern Mediterranean in October 1911, and in particular their views on the city Damascus. On this tour travels Gómez Carrillo major Eastern cities as Beirut, Damascus, Cairo, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Izmir and Istanbul, and their observations and impressions of several books later overturned. In its chronic on the current Syrian capital, titled "Damascus" and "Evoking the luminous memory of Damascus", discusses various issues relating to social, political, historical and cultural aspects of this ancient city, among which urban modernization, the place of women in society, places of everyday life, the shrines of Christian and Muslim religions, etc. Finally, with his extraordinary talent and literary prose, he presents simultaneously the plane / real and mythic vision or Damascus, considered in their world as "a dream city" where life goes between hallucination and reality.
Paulino Toledo's conference will be held at the Instituto Cervantes in Damascus on 13 July at 19H. , Refers generally to the work of the Guatemalan writer Enrique Gómez Carrillo, a brief review of the history he wrote about the East during his trip he made to the Eastern Mediterranean in October 1911, and in particular their views on the city Damascus. On this tour travels Gómez Carrillo major Eastern cities as Beirut, Damascus, Cairo, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Izmir and Istanbul, and their observations and impressions of several books later overturned. In its chronic on the current Syrian capital, titled "Damascus" and "Evoking the luminous memory of Damascus", discusses various issues relating to social, political, historical and cultural aspects of this ancient city, among which urban modernization, the place of women in society, places of everyday life, the shrines of Christian and Muslim religions, etc. Finally, with his extraordinary talent and literary prose, he presents simultaneously the plane / real and mythic vision or Damascus, considered in their world as "a dream city" where life goes between hallucination and reality. 
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