On the bike, on a roof A few weeks ago, Karim and I got on our bikes in the morning. We left Beirut with the sun on our right, still casting long shadows on our left. The first 45 minutes or so of getting out of the city and past...
New old ways of baking in Tripoli On Monday, we got up super early (which at this time of the year, when darkness reigns, means before sunrise) to make our way north along the coast. Lebanon is a really tiny country, but still has 4.5 million people (plus an...
Recent interesting reads Shashi Tharoor writes about India’s language politics: “we don’t have one ‘national language’ in the country, but several”. A feature from Karim and me, published in Sydsvenskan earlier this year, about Jibon Tari, “the boat of life” – a floating hospital in Bangladesh. Makeshift, a magazine...
As we went from 2012 to 2013, I thought back a bit of the year that passed. I think most of all, 2012 was the year when I met fascinating people. Here are some of the people I crossed paths with: In January, we went to Mleeta, the ever-fascinating,...
Am writing something about Rola Sleiman, an inspiring person I met a few months ago in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli. She’s unique in more than one way: not only is she at 37 a very young church leader, she’s also the only female pastor in Lebanon – and,...
By Qatari artist Ghada Al Khater twitter.com/emergeast/status/1…
RT @anchoastro: in Korean folk tales instead of “once upon a time” they’d sometimes use “back when tigers used to smoke” 
🌫️ https://t.co/QhJ9FPOmar
This is how they framed it! Insane that this is the concern: the visitors to Turkey, not the people of Turkey twitter.com/nytimesworld/statu…
Sudan – designers and others, submit your ideas for neighbourhood rehabilitation across the country. Info + registe… twitter.com/i/web/status/15859…
RT @mona_harb_: if you missed this fantastic webinar, you can watch it now: https://t.co/24Wneg0Oya