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.
I was driving down the coast from Salalah, towards the border with Yemen. On my left, empty beaches, on the right, typical omani houses, with their fort like appearance standing…
QATAR AIRWAYS Flight from Doha to Kuala Lumpur 9 May 2017 I like it when they put this calming Quranic verse just before the planes leave the gate. I assume…
TEN CONSECUTIVE FLIGHTS ON QATAR AIRWAYS Flight ONE Miami to Doha Flying time 13 h 45 minutes 777-300 ER attended by Randa, Cairo, Egypt Helena, Kenya, Cabin Manager I am…
It as my good friend Jim Kerr who visiting me in Miami, pondered at my life and said" You are truly homeless but you are Upper Class. So this is…
A WONDERFUL WELCOME TO MALAYSIA I had left Miami early in the morning and with connections arrived at the Singapore International (actually Singapore cannot have domestic flights since it is…
Doron Almog was awarded the ISRAEL PRIZE the highest civilian honour bestowed upon citizens of Israel. The story of his life is awe inspiring: an Israeli patriot, special forces soldier,…
I have been very fortunate with my long association with the Antlers. They are a tribe who had gradual contact with the Outsiders and maintained their identiy intact to the…
QUIBERON: LOVE BY THE BRETAGNE SEA SIDE LA VIDA ES UN SUENO. MS. M AND QATAR A traveler would often be asked, which is your favourite place? Which is your…
Female vs Male Physicians: Better Outcomes? An early discovery as a Medical Student was that Women made excellent physicians, that I wanted to be looked after by one, when the…
This is a pictorial essay of a recent visit to the JEWISH COUNTRY in the COCHIN area in Malabar/Kerala, INDIA. My brother Eliahu, was born in Bombay of Iraqi and…
Mansoor and Amin are brothers from Alleppey and they have a modest shop in Jew Town. They are Muslims, but were very glad to know that me and my brothers…
It was the most unusual Yom Kipur, not planned at all that way. The night before I had begun the observance in the company of a delightful Syrian Christian Orthodox…
YOM KIPUR 5777 IN COCHIN, KERALA I am impressed with the Christian Community in Cochin, their fierce devotion to their faith but done in good faith and vigour. Chicken and…
COOK FOR YOUR DNA My good friend Gordon with his wife recently visited La Habana, my current home. We had known each other since our days as Junior Doctors at…
The day of departure from Havana is always sad, I had the feeling that this time around I will miss my Little Island more than the usual for various reasons.…
I have had a very long standing relationship with Cochin in India, perhaps the ancient Jewish connection. A few months ago, my cochini jewish friend Elias sent me the above…
ONE REFUGEE TO ANOTHER... AN EYE OPENER IN HISTORY OR HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF SYKES-PICOT MAP I am a Jew, and firmly rooted in the Middle East, not only the history…
MEDICAL WISDOM FROM CUBA: AN EGALITARIAN APPROACH TO WHAT IS GOOD FOR SOCIETY The other day I was having lunch with the Senior Professor of Endocrinology and a Consultant Psychologist…
