The only country in the Middle East that an Arab can safely visit

This article by Egyptian journalist and political analyst Nabil Sharaf Eldin is too delicious not to pass along. I have been haunted since early boyhood by an infatuation with Bilad al-Sham, or Greater Syria – the territories of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine.For me, this fascination started with recognizing the voices of singers like Syrian Sabah Fakhry (born 1933) belonging to the al-Sham