‘House of Stone’: The memoir of the late Anthony Shadid

Just weeks prior to the publishing of "House of Stone," Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid died on February 16th, 2012 of an apparent asthma attack while on a reporting assignment in eastern Syria. Here is an excerpt from his posthumously published memoir.INTRODUCTION: BAYTThe Arabic language evolved slowly across the millennia, leaving little undefined, no