Anwar

Taba Heights as the epythome of the Red Sea Riviera?...

Georges Pompidou

A kind of local version of the architecture of Beaubourg...

Vidal Sassoon

Beauty Salon in East Jerusalem...

Antonio Egas Moniz

Pre-frontal lobotomy in the souk...

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rosa rosam rosa rosarum rosae...

Valentino

The best dressed for the occasion was the veiled lady who went for Valentino red...

Eminem

"Capoeira" and Rap at a 'Relais & Chateaux' 5* Hotel...

What would have thought of this Jorge Amado, the writer of the Bahia world,

or Eminem, the rapper of white-trash America?

Barbara Cartland

Not even the feverish imagination of a popular novelist would have come up with this one: a Russian girl from New York marries a Palestinian-British in East Jerusalem and arrives to the wedding by camel...

Ben Gurion

The ceiling of the aiport is a cemetery of escaped balloons...

W.A. Mozart

The tenor wears sunglasses to perform a credible Don Giovanni in full-seduction mode...

Tintin

An Art Deco jewel in the heart of Jerusalem...

(Belgium's magnificent diplomatic spot)

Walter Scott

A bottle of Lagavulin "born" in London in 1993, "who" travelled to TelAviv, and then to Lisbon, and then to Moscow, and then to Madrid, "expired" yesterday, in Jerusalem. At last!

Sultan ...

Revisiting the Antiquities Museum at Jericho's Wisham Palace archeological area.

The only room with air conditioning when it's 39 Celsius outside...

Robert Champollion

Useful tip for ladies fluent either inEnglish or in Arabic or in Hebrew...

John D. Rockfeller

Remnants of woodcarvings saved from latest earthquake felt at Al Aksa Mosque, a century a go..

Maria Feodorovna

The Tsaritsina (not Tzarina) is buried here...

Ragheb Nashashibi

The climax of British Mandatory Palestine?...

Jimmy Carter

Bilingual...

John Wayne

Bathing with your horse... (Jaffa)

Ban Ki-moon

Faissal Husseini

How can I explain the bitter-sweet meaning of "saudade", the longing for the sadness of a moment lost?... Ten volumes of Proustian tosh would not be enough...

Abraham Lincoln

On the "4th of July" the host, daringly, speeched us on Civil War...

Miguel Angelo Buonarroti

The architectural shape of a dome in its full glory...

Sonia Gandhi

Is there a niche for Peace marketing ?....

Maria de Lurdes Modesto

The new dinning spot in Beit Hanina...

John Le Carre

Abu Dis: Berlin Wall-by-the-Jordan...

Andre Segovia

"Oud" instrumentist at a diplomatic bid farewell...

Joe Berardo

A new museum for modern art, in Lisbon... As they say in the real-estate business:"Location, Location, Location!"

Mother Teresa

Good Samaritans: one Israeli, one Palestinian and one Swede fundraising for Gaza, as advertised in West Jerusalem...

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

A folder I was offered at Bir Zeit University, in a green more close to the colour of local olives (zeithun) than to the green of Islam...

Al-Jazeera

Everybody just keeps Al-Jazeera on, like we use to do with CNN some years ago... King CNN is dead, Long Live King Al-Jazeera!

Sari Nusseibeh

This folder opens from right to left. Not very practical but I`ll cherish it nevertheless...

Saint Catherine

New trendy spot in Lisbon,

where I introduced the Middle-Easternish concept of Lemonade with Peppermint...

Gertrude Bell

Less feminine than (T.H.) Lawrence (of Arabia)... Obligatory reading for Irak-watchers...