Tahbeh Hotel's courtesy literature found in our rooms (several decades ago)... Uneven floor please watch your step

     The Souk at Taybet Zaman

embroidered garments
nabatean pottery and ceramics
handblown glass
petra sand bottles
weavings- rugs & wall hangings
hand carved olive wood
bras & copper
dead sea salts, mud, soap.

Have your photagraph taken in authentic Bedouin attire at Al-Mukhtar
        open daily 7:30- 11:00

            
            Map

 [ a sketch of a jumble of odd little shapes tightly wedged together with free spaces as oddly shaped as each room, and little lines depicting steps occur at irregular and unexpected places- it is an old village that has been artfully rebuilt into a beautiful hotel.]

        Almashi- cafe
        Bustan- village square
        Diwan- lounge bar
        Dukan- gift shop
        Elbeer- bar
        Finjan- oriental snack
        Hammam- turkish bath
        Sahtain- main dining room
        Saraya- banquet hall
        Souk- handicraft center
        Tabolin- oriental bakery

    Uneven floor please watch your step.


* Note: This page is an exact copy of the Tahbeh Hotel's courtesy literature found in our rooms. It was written in a relaxed hand on thick brown paper.  I have copied it verbatim.

Saraya

        I wrap myself
        in the strange words
        
        delicious sounds
        mostly mispronounced
        
        and reverberating
        with adventure        
        

poem copyright ©2000 Anne Selden Annab

The Flute

        Books read backwards.

        Jaffar translated
        Kahil Gibran's The Flute
        (The Song).
        The text I read in English
        was pretty

            But Jaffar's unrhymed
              pure translation
              is so much more moving
        the pretty words replaced
            with depth
                the gasp... the last breath of life.

poem copyright © 2000 Anne Selden Annab