Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
My good friend Dr MW was euphemistically referring to our conversation about Microbiome and the work by Drs Elinav and Segal from Weitzmann Institute in Israel. Here is their video…
In Praise of SUGAR No one would be caught writing, In Praise of SALT, then why is an Endocrinologist who is socially committed to prevent Type 2 Diabetes and improve…
The Muslim and Arab countries of this world turned 900 000 Jews who had lived there long before Islam became the adopted religion of those countries, into refugees. Many of…
My work is limited to the American Indians, original inhabitants of this land they call Turtle Island and later named America, after a rich Florentine explorer who was the first…
Within the course of one month: I was in Iquitos in Peru, Manaus in Brasil and Leticia in Colombia. Every where I went I met and made friends with the…
It was Yom Kippur and I was on my way to Miami to be with my good friends. We broke the fast together. The hours we spent chatting was an…
Today is YOM KIPPUR, the most important day in Jewish Calendar. I thought fondly of the other times, when and where I had been present to be with my fellow…
There is a beautiful recounting of the wonderful friendship Shimon Peres had with the French PM who on the last night of his stewardship before being thrown out, made concrete…
I am beginning to understand Qatar a little bit and I like it. The Qataris, native to this desert peninsula with a long history dating back to the beginning of…
I have flown this route many a times, and each time I pass over Constantine, I cannot help think of the Algerian Jews made homeless and made into refugees by…
Travel is Such a Sad Pleasure The above sentence brings back several sentiments, first of all, on this trip: La Habana-Miami-Los Indios-Doha-Casablanca-Doha-Siem Reap-Kuala Lumpur and now to Quiberon in France…
I have just left Havana, Cuba after a few very special days with my best friends in Miami. It was delightful, everything went smoothly, considering the impact of the hardship…
It’s quite a story. This story may seem unlikely in this era of generalized war between cultures, civilizations, and religions. And I am grateful to British journalist Ben Judah for…
A HOTEL STAY THAT TURNED ITSELF INTO A VACATION And that mood followed me to Casablanca. I love flying Qatar Airways; it means frequent transits through Doha. Before, I was…
I am in Doha to show solidarity with the country, which is facing a diplomatic crisis, forced on them by Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt, all I suppose stalwarts…
I have to do more justice to this meeting, however short it was, with the Cuban Ambassador to Qatar..I have to write in detail later.. except to say that HE…
Love in the time of Internet: Connections with Iran MY love affair with Iran seems to have been born with me, as I can always remember a time when I…
I chose the right place to come, to get away from the conflicts and confusions in Brussels and Miami. Here I can be myself, don't have to put up any…
