About the book: year / Styles and eras, traditions and destinies, past, present and future are intricately and unpredictably intertwined in this city, like patterns on carpets his mosques. Just like several centuries ago, people here drink tea from glass cups and fry mackerel on the piers. Merchants carrying wooden trays with goods on their heads maneuver in the traffic flow. People mix into a colorful and multifaceted stream, spreading through the streets like blood through veins. This is the noisy breathing of Istanbul, its unevenly beating pulse, its ragged rhythm and unquenchable inner fire - alive and hot. If his stones could speak, they would tell hundreds of legends about love and hate, friendship and betrayal, glory and shame. In this mighty, hectic city, seething like a cauldron of chorba - Turkish soup, you want to enjoy every minute, squint from the Bosphorus wind - and believe that all roads lead... to Istanbul. Maria Kicha - Ph.D., teacher, author of the book “Mecca. Biography of a mysterious city." Speaks Turkish, Armenian, English, Italian, Arabic and Hebrew. For many years he has been traveling around the Middle East and neighboring regions, studying local history and culture. She has repeatedly visited Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Azerbaijan and Iran. He runs a public page about the culture and history of the Middle East, “First Middle Eastern,” which has more than 35,000 subscribers. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.