Sep 15, 2017
A JEWISH ANTHROPOLOGIST IN THE LAP OF ARAB LUXURY IN QATAR
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…
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The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Sep 15, 2017
JE SUIS JUIF ESPAGNOL SONG BY ENRICO MACIAS ALGERIA MADE HIM A REFUGEE IN FRANCE
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…
Sep 15, 2017
SOHEIL NAFISI, AHMAD SHAMLOO AND SOME SWEET MEMORIES
I am in Quiberon, Brittany, France where the night has fallen and the rain gone into hiding and the cote sauvage or the wild coast back to its unrelenting rhythm.…
Aug 15, 2017
AMERICA THE ANGRY, AMERICA THE UNFRIENDLY, AMERICA THE UNWELCOMING
I have never felt unwelcome in this country and I have been coming in and out of the country with certain regularity for more than twenty years. My reason to…
Jul 15, 2017
THE HUMBLE PAROTTA OF COCHIN HAS A COUSIN MSEMEN IN CASABLANCA
I am at Riad Hamdani, a bed and breakfast lodging place, Moroccan style, very comfortable and inspiring near the Mohammed V International Airport in Casablanca. In the morning, facing the…
May 15, 2017
I BELONG TO THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE AND THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE BELONG TO ME
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…
May 15, 2017
Thenew World Order Has Arrived And
THE NEW WORLD ORDER HAS ARRIVED AND THE PERSIAN GULF STATES HAVE THEIR VIEW, AND ITS INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS Recently I have been spending short spurts of time in QATAR, mainly…
Apr 15, 2017
EXCELLENCE IN THE AIR QATAR AIRWAYS FROM DOHA TO MIAMI
The long haul flight was closing on to its destination, we had taken off from Doha at 8 35 am (1 35 am in Miami), right now the time is…
Jan 15, 2017
WHICH IS YOUR FAVOURITE COUNTRY. MS.M FROM BUCURESTI AND QATAR AIRWAYS
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…
Jan 15, 2017
RIAD HAMDANI, CASABLANCA: MOROCCAN MINT TEA AT MIDNIGHT
RIAD HAMDANI, CASABLANCA: MOROCCAN MINT TEA AT MIDNIGHT 26 December 2016 The flight is about to leave Casablanca for its 6 hours 40 minutes flight to Hamad International Airport in…
Oct 15, 2016
THE TEDIOUS ITINERARY OF A PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST TO THE INDIANS
The tedious itinerary of a Physician Anthropologist Most of you will have absolutely no interest in this itinerary, I am putting this down on paper because I am so confused,…
Oct 15, 2016
HOME TO HOME HAVANA 1230 PM 25.9.2016 TO BRUSELAS/BRUXELLES 29.9.2016 1900
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.…
Jul 15, 2016
QUIBERON IN FRANCE TO THE OMAHA INDIANS OF NEBRASKA: LIFE IS ALL ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
Tire-Bouchon is the two carriage train that goes from the popular seaside town of Quiberon to Auray where one can catch major trains to various parts of Brittany as well…
Feb 15, 2016
FORT COCHIN A SUMPTUOUS FEAST FOR THE MIND BODY AND THE SOUL
FORT COCHIN A SUMPTUOUS FEAST FOR THE MIND, BODY AND THE SOUL. ONE DAY IN FEBRUARY My choices of places to stay at Fort Cochin are the Old Lighthouse Bristow…
Jan 15, 2016
REMEMBERING CHARLIE HEBDO JANUARY 7TH IN MIAMI SENTIMENTS OF A JEWISH TRAVELER
During the years I lived in Europe, I had to tragically witness three terrorist attacks, two of them involving mainly Jews and the last one in November 2015 of the…
Sep 15, 2015
FRIENDSHIP OVER TIME AND DISTANCE
FRIENDSHIP OVER TIME AND DISTANCE While I was a post graduate student at Jackson Memorial Hospital of the University of Miami, the southern cone of the Americas was always within…
Dec 15, 2014
JEWS OF ARABIA AND IRAN: PAST AND PRESENT AND A HANUKKAH THOUGHT FOR THEM
IN MEMORY OF ALL THE JEWS WHO LIVED IN ARABIC/PERSIAN SPEAKING LANDS, IN HISTORIC TIMES AND THOSE WHO CONTINUE TO LIVE IN IRAN AS MOST ARAB COUNTRIES HAVE MADE REFUGEES…
Nov 15, 2014
FROM INDIANS TO CUBANS A FREQUENT FLIER ODYSSEY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE FROM INDIANS TO CUBANS A FREQUENT FLIER ODYSSEY At 630 AM, as NPR was broadcasting the news of the day, I drove…