The Beekeeper of Aleppo

by Christy Lefteri

‘At this table have eaten a thousand kings blind in their right eye, and a thousand kings blind in their left eye, and a thousand kings blind in both eyes, all of whom have departed the world and have gone to tomb and catacomb.’ Every king who ever ruled this place was so blind, in one way or another, that they left it full of riches and devoid of life.”