Saturday, July 21, 2007

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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)

Sunday, July 15, 2007

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!

Saturday, July 14, 2007

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...
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John D. Rockfeller



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



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




The climax of British Mandatory Palestine?...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

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...