The Fall of Assad, Steve Jobs’ Sunni Ancestors, & Remembering Where We Come From

In the emotional day after the fall of the Syrian dictator, Bashar Al-Assad, I am thinking of Steve Jobs, his sister Mona, and their Syrian father.

Our mutual early days in the San Francisco tech and sex world, brought together odd, but similarly-inspired revolutionaries.

—Many of us, the children of immigrants who barely made it out.

Photos from the inside, and the Eastern face, of Institu du Monde Arabe. The apertures open and close all day with the movement of the sun. © Susie Bright

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