طوني في سوريا

Tony says: "the best thing about visiting Syria as an expatriot is that your schedule gets overbooked as soon as you touch the Homeland soil. So enough complaining about not having time in USA, the same thing is happening here. The only difference is that you don't have a choice here to schedule it. It is already in existance before you know it."

Tony is probably the oldest friend I know, and his coming to Syria this summer was a pleasant surprise. We were together since seventh grade (1986) and occupied the same bank in school for 6 years, then 6 years in Medical School, then in the USA we were constantly in touch, including numerous visits and meetings. This was true in the last 2 years when we were closer than usual. We had the "Al-Janneh Restaurant protocol" during our visits to Detroit were we would have lunch even before doing anything else (the other culprit being Philip "the Elephant").