Jan 15, 2018
WELCOME TO 2018 CONTINUATION OF THE HAPPINESS OF 2017
Historically speaking, the New Year's Eve has not been kind to me. I can think of only the disasters that had happened on that day in various countries: Melbourne, Guyaquil,…
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.
Dec 15, 2017
GRATEFUL FOR 2017 WITH ITS WONDERFUL JOURNEYS
I am recuperating nicely from the last trip in the tranquility of my sisters home in Miami, while she is away with her family on Caribbean cruise. This last trip…
Dec 15, 2017
WHY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018, WHY NOT, GRATEFUL FOR AN EVENTFUL 2017
Some one from Cuba: I am supposed to pretend to be happy at this time of the year! Advertisements from Malaysia to Qatar to Miami all inviting you to have…
Dec 15, 2017
IN PRAISE OF SUGAR AND WHY NOT SALT
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…
Dec 15, 2017
KUALA LUMPUR TO DOHA TO BRUSSELS A TIRING JOURNEY WITH A PLEASANT STOPOVER
I left USA on the 8th and today is 15th and I have covered nearly 2/3 or more of the circumference of the earth. One alarming fact is : in…
Dec 15, 2017
HAPPY HANUKKAH FROM A MUSLIM COUNTRY, MALAYSIA KUALA LUMPUR NIGHT 1
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…
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Aug 15, 2017
THE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN DOHA WILL CENTRE YOUR LIFE: THOUGHTS FROM THE PERSIAN GULF
HOW TO CENTRE YOURSELF WHEN YOU ARE TRAVELING OFTEN? Thoughts from DOHA As I entered the Al Mourjan Lounge at Doha International Airport, a young man clad in grey suit…
Aug 15, 2017
THINGS HAPPEN FOR A REASON: A MODERN DAY TECHNOLOGICAL ENCOUNTER AT 39 000 FEET
THINGS HAPPEN FOR A REASON: A MODERN DAY TECHNOLOGICAL ENCOUNTER AT 39 000 FEET. The sleek Airbus 350 took off from New York JFK airport on time, now climbing over…
Aug 15, 2017
A TALE OF TWO CITIES; NEW YORK AND DOHA, A GOOD METAPHOR FOR DECLINE
A TALE OF TWO CITIES: IN A MATTER OF HOURS. A GOOD METAPHOR NEW YORK AND DOHA To travel from Havana to Doha, one has to transit either in Miami…
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…
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…