هذا هو يومي الأول في جزيرة (زنجبار) وسط المحيط الهندي.
دخلت حانوتا يغص بأكياس القرنفل، عرفت صاحبته أنني متخصص في الأدب العربي حدثتني عن مخطوط وقادتني إلى القبو لقراءته..
This was my first day in the small island of Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean, with its high waves.
I went into a shop packed with bags of dried carnations. When the shop owner found out that I was specialized in classic Arabic literature, she told me about an old manuscript and led me to the basement to read it…