HARD LIGHT
There is a moment as you approach the edge of Dabouq, a suburb on the western fringes of Amman, when you realise that you are holding your breath. Having navigated the formerly forested hilltop’s mildly depressing confusion of red-roofed, neoclassical villas and chunky, cookie-cutter limestone family apartment blocks, you stumble across a house worthy of the location.
Massive, monumental and hunkered into the hillside, the concrete behemoth, hand-sanded to an almost fleshy finish,
