And more the cloak of simple wool

Than robes in which I learned to sigh.

The crust I ate beside my tent

Was more than this fine bread to me;

The wind’s voice where the hill-path went

Was more than tambourine can be.”[1]

Arab women have come to the hospital from time to time, but they always long to return to their desert life, and are impatient at the restraints of town life.

Mutrâv Paulus

Bishop of the Syrian Roman Catholic Church in Mosul.