Galina Belyayeva

Emil Loteanu's film " My Sweet and Tender Beast" based on the short story "Drama at the Hunt" by Anton Chekhov with the incredibly poetic beauty of Galina Belyayeva has to be, for sure, among the Russian films one must bring to the proverbial trip to a deserted island.

Arafat, Barghouty, Darwish

Street Art at Qalandia checkpoint

Ali Romeu & Fatima Juliet

A wedding in East Jerusalem with so many cameras filming that it felt like a TV reality show...

NOKIA E71 (IV)

Yellow buses having a deserved siesta,
in the backyard of the Hananina & Kharaz Center, Ramallah

Lady with a lapdog

Yelena Sofonova in Nikita Mikhalkov's film "Dark Eyes" (Otchi Tchiorny) inspired in Anton Chekhov's short story "Dama i sabatchka" I have just re-read in the compilation "Historias Russas" after reading Rosamund Bartlett's biography "Chekhov Scenes from a Life".

NOKIA E71 (III)

National Day of Egypt, Ramallah
The guests clapped with emotion at the first mention of Gamal Abdel Nasser in the Presidential speech ...

post-Gipsy Kings

Last Monday, a concert by Chico and the Gypsies at the "Tombe des Rois", East Jerusalem

Savile Row

A tailor in the Old City of Jerusalem kept British Mandate fashion traditions...

NOKIA E71 (II)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim) semi-rioting in Jerusalem road n. 1, last Thursday

Nokia E71 (I)

"Nigeria" in afrobeat mood at the Music Box, Lisbon, 9 July 2009

Lucas K R T P

A personal post in this blog can be justified out of something extra-ordinary.
The most recent child of this Blogger of Yours was born about two weeks a go.
There, the six of them: Matty, Marta, Freddy, Timmy, Mishka and now Lucas

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Prisons as Art...

The exhibition "Liquid Modernity" (OREL ART UK, 7 Howick Place, London) of the latest works of Andrei Molodkin (who will represent Russia in the 2009  Venice Biennale) was very illuminating. There is a long tradition of Russian art originated from a stay in a camp or a prison (Dostoievsky, Soljenitisine...). This time it's a look from the outside in more meanings than one. Inside the prison bars oil is flowing...

Cristiano Messi

Pane et circensis...



The bookmakers in London were on fire with the Rome fight between soccer-gladiators from Britannia and Hispania!