Nov 15, 2019
THANK YOU FOR NOT COMING… WISH YOU WERE NOT HERE
Currently there is a healthy trend in the minds of the potential visitors from Europe and other richer nations about TOURISM and the destinations. As you have seen, VENICE is…
Stories
Field notes from the road
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.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Oct 15, 2019
QR QATAR AIRWAYS NEVER DISAPPOINTS
Am I off key to anticipate my flights on QR Qatar Airways? I look forward to my QR flights and on this morning, Madrid to Doha and then on to…
Jun 15, 2019
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DYING BECAUSE OF LACK OF IMMUNITY . THE YEAR IS 2019
Many of the indigenous peoples around the world had lived their lives in relative comfort and conditions when OUTSIDERS began to arrive.. it does not matter that it happened 4000-2500…
Jun 15, 2019
A LONG WONDERFUL STAY IN SIEM REAP AND NOW TO SAY GOOD BYE
It is always the same, the day before departure, I feel a tinge of sadness, cannot explain why, it is the sadness of a good bye, a temporary permanence now…
May 15, 2019
GLOBAL HEALTH PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST . DOES THAT EXIST ?
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Mar 15, 2019
Sule Shangri-la Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar
So much has happened in the five years since my last visit to Yangon in Myanmar! The surprise of this visit was my stay at Sule Shangril-la right in the…
Feb 15, 2019
A DAY WITH BENEDETTI IN MONTEVIDEO URUGUAY
I am not sure when Benedetti entered my life. His association with Cuba 1977 was long before mine. I visited Colonia with . my brother Itzhak and another time with…
Nov 15, 2018
A GREAT HONOUR TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE MEMORY OF THE GREATEST ADMIRAL OF THE SEVEN SEAS CHENG HO/ZHENG HE
I cannot remember when I first heard about Cheng HO, the greatest navigator who travelled the realms of the Ming dynasty over the course of many journeys, as far as…
Oct 15, 2018
EAT LIKE AN ISRAELI IT IS POSSIBLE EVEN IN MIAMI
When it comes to Food Technology and Food Chemistry and innovations in Nutrition at the Molecular level, the tiny country of ISRAEL (the size of the state of New Jersey)…
May 15, 2018
TRAVEL MADE EASY, BUT WHO DOES MAKE IT EASY AND ENJOYABLE FOR YOU
When you are travelling, and often, you become aware of all the people responsible for your pleasure of travel. There are people who are obvious, such as Pilots who take…
Apr 15, 2018
Tourist Advice: Thank you for not coming
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Mar 15, 2018
OBESITY IN MALAYSIA AND WHAT IS THIS PARLIAMENTARIAN DOING ABOUT IT
I received this newspaper clip from Malaysia this morning. A legislator was in fact praising the Obesity epidemic in the country saying it shows that the country is prosperous compared…
Dec 15, 2017
SOUTHEAST ASIA WELCOMES YOU WITH THE FLAVOURS
If you look carefully at the map how tiny the island city state of Singapore is! One of the miracles of modern development! Lee Kuan Yew was visiting Australia when…
Sep 15, 2017
PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION IN QATAR; WHAT A SURPRISE IN A SAFE AND HOSPITABLE COUNTRY
LESSONS FROM QATAR Like many people living in the Western world, my own conceptions of the Oil Rich Gulf states were not very favourable, because of what the Media portrayed…
Sep 15, 2017
SHIMON PERES:always remain Jewish and ensure the Jewish people always remain.
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…
Sep 15, 2017
TRAVEL IS SUCH A SAD PLEASURE
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…
Jun 15, 2017
MONTH OF TRAVELS MAY 2017 DOHA TO CAIRO TO DOHA
WONDERFUL AL SAFWA LOUNGE Nice to meet old friends, from Sri Lanka and make new ones, from Indonesia and Zimbabwe. (not mentioning their names for privacy) Surrealism at Cairo Airport..Incredible..…
May 15, 2017
QATAR AIRWAYS DOHA TO NEW YORK 16 MAY 2017
I met Aksam AbouThahir from Matare, Sri Lanka on 2 August 2012, when I arrived at Doha (the Old) airport. He was working at the Business Class Lounge and our…