evening at the theatre, to see The Merry Wives of Windsor at Bath. The production is one which was originally at the Globe, and is now touring. It had a big cast, and was performed in period Elizabethan dress and with it's own minstrels gallery (on top of the half-timbered house which formed the main set). There were 5 or 6 minstrels who appeared to be playing period instruments - some of them, at least. I am not sure whether the kettle-drums and triangle were common in Elizabethan times, but one person was playing what I think was a rebec, another a hautboy, and another instrument which I coldn't identify - a very long-necked string instrument.

I enjoyed myself, although there was a lot of over-acting going on, whichAcademics for Peace. Op-ed by Pelin Tan

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A 17 year old Syrian refugee named Mohammed follows me to my department at the university to find a sleeping place for two days before he will be deported to Syria from the border of the Mardin city region. The helpless director of Mardin’s foreign migrant station is overloaded with new arrivals and has no idea where he can host this young man. Mohammed just came from Istanbul where he searched for a job in Taksim Square after managing to escape from Homs by entering Turkey via the Antioch border. His family is in Syria hoping he will be safe and can continue his studies. Now he will be returned to Syria to join the military as a soldier, since this will