Annia Ciezadlo: "Ada seratus penjual buku di kota bundar tua yang didi...

"Ada seratus penjual buku di kota bundar tua yang didirikan oleh khalifah abad ke-8 al-Mansur. Kafe dan budaya minum anggur di Baghdad telah terkenal selama berabad-abad; ada seluruh sekolah penyair Irak yang menulis puisi tentang bar anggur Baghdad abad pertengahan - khamriyaat, atau lagu-lagu anggur, yang saya kutip dalam buku."

--- Annia Ciezadlo

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There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has been famous for centuries; there was a whole school of Iraqi poets who wrote poems about the wine bars of medieval Baghdad - the khamriyaat, or wine songs, that I quote in the book.