Sep 15, 2017
SIEM REAP IN CAMBODIA : TWO DAYS TO CHILL OUT
Most people come to Siem Reap, to base themselves there for three days to visit the largest archeological ruins in the world, Angkor. I have been to Siem Reap three…
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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.
Sep 15, 2017
A VERY BRIEF STOPOVER IN KUALA LUMPUR
It always feels good to arrive in KL, a city I have grown to like since 2008 when I met a dear friend on my flight to Siem Reap! Over…
Sep 15, 2017
THE CHANGING MOODS OF QUIBERON ON THE BRITTANY COAST
This is my favourite spot in France, so far. France is a beautiful country and I have seen just a small portion, perhaps I will get a chance soon enough…
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.…
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
Man wants one thing, the Nature wants another: A TRIP OF MISHAPS
I have been on the road for a while, in fact travel has become HOME and each stop a pleasant interlude before the next flight leaves for another destination. Usually…
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…
Sep 15, 2017
A TED MED RESEARCH SCHOLAR IN DOHA: HERE IS A GOOD TED TALK TO MAKE YOU THINK OF ARAB WOMEN DIFFERENTLY
For the past two years, I have been a TED MED Research Scholar, vetting the speakers to the annual TED MED conference. It is a very satisfying task, and the…
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
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
CUBA: THE LAND OF AFFECTIONS
The source of my affections, the incredible fountain of love and tenderness, is no doubt, my little island of Cuba. 11 of the provinces in Cuba suffered some form of…
Sep 15, 2017
VIDEO SHOT ALONG THE MALECON IN HAVANA: HURRICANE IRMA
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2017/09/video-shot-along-malecon-in-havana.html
Sep 15, 2017
MIAMI IS MULTIETHNIC AND MULTICULTURAL SO IT IS GOOD TO SAVOUR IT FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS BEFORE ENTERING AMERICA
Miami airport was closed during and after the Hurricane Irma, I had to wait two extra days in Doha, Qatar. 15h 20 minute flight from Doha to Miami, it was…
Sep 15, 2017
A LOVE POEM TO THE RESILIENCY OF CUBAN PEOPLE SUNG BY PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE
I had already left France and Belgium when the storm IRMA was pending and when I reached Doha in Qatar, it was evident that there would be no flight to…
Sep 15, 2017
YOM KIPPUR 5778 DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE
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…
Aug 15, 2017
COINCIDENCES ARE NOT COINCIDENCES: WE LACK THE INTELLIGENCE TO UNDERSTAND IT, SAY THE NATIVE INDIANS
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…
Aug 15, 2017
HAVANA IS THRIVING DESPITE THE NOISES FROM YUMA: NOTES FROM AUGUST 2017
While the everyday life in Havana has been affected a little, especially for people with limited income, because of the pronouncements coming from Washington, the resiliency of the Cuban people…
Aug 15, 2017
CUBA IT IS TIME TO VISIT THE TREASURE OF CUBA: ITS PEOPLE
It is a great pleasure for me to show my favourite country to visiting people. In the last year, I have had multiple visitors including some friends from my university…