Category Archives: Causes

Why I Want to Hear the Stories of the Perpetrators

Posted on 15 October 2012 by admin

“Best-best case scenario, how long do you think it will take for your country to return to normal?” This question was asked over wine and lovely Syrian vegetarian food, by a Brit of a Syrian. My friend from Syria leaned … Continue reading →

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#MuslimRage

Posted on 24 September 2012 by admin

So, the way the story goes, Newsweek published an article about Muslim Rage in response to the protests during the past two weeks. They started up a twitter feed #MuslimRage to further the discussion, but their plan kind of backfired. … Continue reading →

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We interrupt these protests for a youtube video

Posted on 17 September 2012 by admin

A couple of days ago, I came across this tweet from @LeShaque: “In Douma, Syrian protested the movie for 30 secs before switching back to revolution mode | http://bit.ly/U28NP3  #Syria“ And even though I’d been horrified to hear of the … Continue reading →

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This is a job that calls for a little boy!

Posted on 3 September 2012 by admin

Driving through the Burkinabe countryside, little boys by the side of the road would run toward our racing white SUV and wave enthusiastically at us. It was very cute. But then I started to notice that there were, in fact, … Continue reading →

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Burkinabe 49-ers: Gold mining!

Posted on 29 August 2012 by admin

In a lot of ways, Burkina Faso is reminding me of the tales of the Great American “Frontier” expansion of the mid-19th century. When I read about planting season and crop failures, and the possibility of dying if a year’s … Continue reading →

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Olympics commercial regulations

Posted on 17 August 2012 by admin

About a week before the Olympics started, I was sitting in my favourite local café, working on some project or another, as I tend to do, when two French-speaking journalists walked in, one of whom was carrying an enormous camera. … Continue reading →

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Olympics: “A picture of the Kingdom of Heaven”

Posted on 9 August 2012 by admin

They say that when the Kingdom of Heaven, or God’s perfection, reaches its fulfilment in humanity, there will be unity of all mankind. All nations and colours and races will join together. Well, for me, then, the Olympics were a … Continue reading →

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the view from the balcony – right

Posted on 11 February 2012 by admin

And then, I turned my head to the right. These are our next-door neighbours. Yup… they’re squatters. A family of I-don’t-know-how-many-but-I-know-it’s-a-lot, living in the shadow of a house large enough to be a mini mansion but instead converted into an … Continue reading →

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Gloucester Road

Posted on 16 December 2011 by admin

At first I thought it was a greasy spoon breakfast place, but then I peeked inside and I saw a homey looking, tastefully decorated café. So I went in. A man in goatee and apron jumped up from a table … Continue reading →

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These Things Take Time? How much time?!

Posted on 12 December 2011 by admin

Yesterday, I came across a rather thought-provoking article. It provides a valuable, even if a bit politico-economically obtuse, review of history of Latin America. If you have five minutes, please do read it. I also love that it came with … Continue reading →

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