Posts tagged Qurna
The Garden of Eden: A Dull Place? | Religion Dispatches
The Garden of Eden: A Dull Place? | Religion Dispatches My Q&A with Nathan Schneider on the Garden of Eden….
Posted on August 03, 2011 by Brook – 
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Interviews, Paradise Lust | Tagged Adam and Eve, Iraq, Qurna, women in Eden
Life Goes On in the Garden of Eden
At the heart of Paradise Lust is a small town in southern Iraq, located at the former junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, called Qurna. They have a small park there which contains a tree supposed to be the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Usually Qurna stays out of the spotlight,… More →
Posted on May 31, 2011 by Brook – Leave a comment
This Week In Eden (News) | Tagged Iraq, Qurna
This picture was taken 33 years ago this month in the port of Djibouti, where Thor Heyerdahl, famous for crossing the Pacific in a balsa-wood raft in 1947, burned his latest watercraft in protest in 1978. The boat, the Tigris, was made of Mesopotamian marsh reeds woven together in bundles by an international crew of… More →
Posted on April 08, 2011 by Brook – Leave a comment
Paradise Lust | Tagged Djibouti, Qurna, Thor Heyerdahl
