Citizens of Blogspot

I pledge allegiance to the Great State of Blogspot, for it has succeeded where our national political and social systems have failed. Blogspot has allowed me to cross socio-religio-economic “fault lines” as Dubai Jazz so aptly called them, and meet someone I never would have met otherwise in real life. You see, Dubai Jazz and I come from “different” parts of Aleppo – you know, those religiously segregated parts that never meet despite being only a few kilometers apart. He hails from one religiously defined neighborhood and I from another. An otherwise seemingly innocent question of which part of town are you from, immediately categorized us along those fault lines.

I might meet Dubai Jazz on the street somewhere in our vast city, but we would never talk, let alone have lunch. Got to thank whoever invented blogging for helping two compatriots discover that not only can they have lunch together, but that they might actually have a lot in common despite living across the great divide. It was great meeting you, Dubai Jazz!