The Bread of Angels, (Paperback)

from mcelhra

Stephanie Saldana spent a year in Damascus as a Fulbright Scholar studying the role of Jesus in Islam. Along the way she also embarks upon a personal journey and learns a lot about herself as well. I really enjoyed this book. Comparisons to Eat, Pray, Love are inevitable and I liked this book a l...

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Thoughtful and moving memoir of dealing with grief and one's past.

from whitreidtan

Stephanie Saldana went to Damascus on a Fulbright scholarship to study the Jesus of the Qu'ran. She wanted to learn Arabic and read the Qu'ran in the original. She had lived in the Middle East before but Syria was new to her. The course of this memoir takes place over her Fulbright year, a year i...

from clue

I enjoy both memoirs and travelogues and this book is a combination of both. A divinty student, Saldana went to Damascus on a Fulbright Scholarship in 2004 to study Islam. When she arrived in Syria she was lonely and depressed but Damascus and the people she met there lead her on a journey of hea...

from artisu

The Bread of Angels was a feast for the soul and I could hardly put it down. Despite a very busy weekend, I finished it on Sunday after it came in the mail on Friday. I enjoyed Stephanies journeys through Damascus, Iraq, Lebanon and especially her spiritual journeys through Christianity and Islam...