Writer Transforms Ottoman-Era Akko Home Into Artists' Retreat
This week in Israel, a local Muslim family will have an engagement party in the stone courtyard of an Ottoman-era house recently purchased and renovated by a Jewish writer in the old coastal city of Akko. Since the family’s nearby home is too small to host such an event, Israeli-American writer Evan Fallenberg, at the request of the family, offered up his space. Fallenberg’s Akko home is central to a project he’s calling “Arabesque”—the house will serve as an artists’ retreat, exhibition space... Читать дальше...