Alaa Al Aswany

A pretty honourable descendant of Master Naphouz...

Sayed Kashua

Being Arab where it hurts...

Sherezade

Long before Nespresso...

Jean Monnet

The long arm of the formidable EU foreign policy machinery lurking in Al-Khalil...

King Abdullah

Christopher Hitchens

To read this book while at walking distance of the Holy Sepulcre, the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the remnants of the Temple of Herodes is quite an experience...

Kaiser Willelm

archimandrite

lev nessinbaum

Old Baku, Azerbeijan

Almost a White Russian, possibly a convert to Islam, a fugitive of Nuremberg laws. The epithome of the identity-bender...

Vittorio Giardino

A masterclass with one of the few remaining masters of European "bande dessinee"...
(Festival of Comics and Animated Film, TelAviv Cinematheque)