Galinha-da-India

Some of my stuffed friends, restless, move into the Drawing Room...

NOKIA E71 (VII)

Wedding Cake with Young Girl (detail)

NOKIA E71 ( VI )

Abu Gosh: a Crusader monastery with a special mood...

NOKIA E71 ( V )

A mobile phone snapshot of hanging suits at a Wedding (edited )

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Rusty door at the Old Port of Jaffa

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...