"Who knew what wisdom lay locked in the many-chambered hive?"
"Alameddine, himself a brilliant hakawati, exuberantly reclaims and celebrates the art of wisdom of the war-torn Middle East in this stupendous, ameliorating, many-chambered palace of a novel."
"Hours later, at the end of my travel through this many-chambered heart of the city's collective wound, I hugged a compete stranger."