May 15, 2022
SOUS LE CIEL DE PARIS. I WISH YOU WERE WITH ME
One of the advantages of living in more than one country, is that you feel present and congruous with the pulse of the country and in my case with the…
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Feb 15, 2022
A LOVELY LUNCH: IT IS WITH THE HEART ONE SEES. ONE CAN LEARN TO SEE THE HEART WITH THE EYES
Things happen for a reason, say the American Indians. I find myself in La Habana, amidst the chaos of thousands of cuban emigrants arriving from Miami with their demeanour vastly…
Feb 15, 2022
WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS
The 1942 movie CASABLANCA which was entirely filmed in studios in Los Angeles became a cult movie and to this day continues to be considered a special movie. I remember…
Feb 15, 2022
MOVEABLE FEAST OR A FEAST THAT MOVES? PARIS HAVANA AND CAMBODIA
Once you are Paris for a while, you begin to understand what Ernest Hemingway meant by MOVEABLE FEAST Many of the places described in this book still stand and I…
Jan 15, 2022
ONE WEEK IN QUIBERON, BRITTANY, FRANCE GOOD FOR THE MIND AND THE BODY
Quiberon lies at the end of a peninsula bearing its name, connected by a thin strip of land to the mainland Brittany and France. The village of Quiberon has a…
Nov 15, 2021
RUE DE RIVOLI IN PARIS TO KENDALLTOWN IN MIAMI. TEN YEARS ON THIS DAY OF MOURNING 25.11.2021
We had been invited to dinner at the home of the daughter of my Brother Youssef. It is only a short walk from where I am staying with him. The…
Nov 15, 2021
I DONT SPEAK PERSIAN BUT SOME PERSIAN SONGS DANCE AROUND MY HEART. THIS ONE BY SIAVASH GHOMAYSHI
I had driven north from Miami to be with my dear friends M & G. A very long conversation, broken only for a nouvelle americain cuisine dinner, followed, blessed by…
Aug 15, 2021
RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE AND ACCEPTANCE IN COCHIN, KERALA, INDIA. MADE ME CELEBRATE ONAM IN PARIS
My day had begun in Paris, and I was slowly wandering around the Left Bank of Paris when I received a short video from a very devoted Catholic friend of…
Aug 15, 2021
THE ARTISTS AND PHILOSOPHERS OF BOULEVARD SAN GERMAINE : JEAN PAUL SARTRE, SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR… AND IN 2021 YASEEN KHAN OF INDIA AND PARIS
I have had a lifelong fascination with the relationship of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, who I thought influenced my relationships with her boldness and courage and innovation and…
Aug 15, 2021
BOUSHRA ALMUTAWAKEL, YEMENITE PHOTOGRAPHER ON IDENTITY AND SYMBOLISM OF THE HIJAB.. I ASK WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO OUR SISTERS IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAN ?
On the day Kabul in Afghanistan succumbed to the Taliban forces, there was a collective groan of agonized voices around the world.. What will happen to our Afghan sisters? It…
Aug 15, 2021
PROUD OF FRANCE AND PASS SANITAIRE.. WISH USA WOULD ADOPT SOMETHING SIMILAR ?
My Thalys train crawled into Gare du Nord in Paris and disgorged the eager populace from its belly. I stood in line at the exit and we were being checked…
Aug 15, 2021
LONG DISTANCE FLYING DURING THE TIME OF COVID: NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT THIS IBERIA FLIGHT FROM MADRID TO MIAMI
Madrid airport takes the Covid Precautions VERY seriously. I was asked about my covid documents three times and my vaccination certificate checked just before boarding. There are sanitizers galore, spread…