Joel D. Hirst's Blog

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Europe is a museum to its remarkable past.

A group of Sudanese women stand, huddled together for protection against the sandstorm.

Paris does abide.

For about ten years I fought in the “War on Terror”.

I did a second one of these, more colorful.

During the early days of the Islamic caliphate, around the 8th and 9th centuries, the Arab Muslim world was at the peak of civilization.

This one is entirely from my imagination.

Africa captivates and captures you, but not in the way you would think.

I think she is probably happy, content and at peace with herself.

I think this my favorite of my novels.

Back before the prose boom started, maybe with Dickens or Hugo, and which came of age perhaps during the Lost Generation, most famous writers were poets.

In Yerevan, Armenia, in an antique shop full of musty tomes and dusty artifacts I found an old Soviet Don Quixote iron statuette.

Five years ago I was involved in a pretty crazy adventure, lending a hand to a diverse group of people which included Juilliard Music School, the Estonian Intelligence Minister, the Portuguese Defense Minister, the Qatari Royal Family, and Yo Yo Ma as we…