In the St. Petersburg publishing house "Symposium", the translation of the novel Paul Bowles "under the cover of heaven" (1949) recognized by Time magazine is one of the hundred best novels of the 20th century. The book was written in Morocco, where Bowles (1910-1999) lived with small breaks for almost 60 years.

The second volume of the works of Robert Irwin - "Algerian Secrets" came out at the Symposium publishing house. If you see Paris, you should easily and pleasantly die, then having come to the Arab East, undoubtedly, you should go crazy. The deceitful accessibility of Dubai beaches is a dangerous trap for naive Europeans. The girl who gives Arab a cup in the advertising "Neskafa" is mistaken, believing that this aroma brings closer. The east cannot be tamed.

In the Middle Ages, the Arab world was perceived by the Western world as an unconditional enemy, from whom the coffin of the Lord had to win. In the era of education, the Arabs were defeated, and the Arab East ceased to seem too dangerous. A European man began to perceive these countries as a tourist or conqueror perceives - from the point of view of the pleasures that can be found there.