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KADDISH AT THE TOMB OF JOB. RECITING SHEMA AT THE EDGE OF THE EMPTY QUARTER OF ARABIA The drive up the mountains from Salalah had its own spectacular beauty, a…
I am a traveller and very seldom do I get very enthused about arriving in a country (home countries and cities are excepted, such as Cuba, Havana, Miami, Cochin, KL…
An adolescent love letter to Malaysia Malaysia began appearing on the horizon on my travels since 2008... The year I met my best friend in Asia on a flight to…
I am at the Double Tree Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, at the Lounge at 34th floor, looking at the setting sun colouring the city being slowly lit up underneath me.…
All the Little Pleasures of Life ! I had not expected to receive such a warm welcome at the Executive Lounge at Double Tree Hilton Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. The…
Fo-r an airport of this size, BIA has four different Lounges for passengers. I now have visited all the four and enjoyed the facilities Serendib is possibly the best if…
I have had a long association with the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska. In fact when I go there on my monthly visits, I live in a house within the reservation.…
Arrival in Fort Cochin For a country that prides itself in IT, the public offering of IT is very poor, much poorer than a country like Cambodia. An international airport…
THE ETIHAD LOUNGE AT JFK, ONE OF THE BEST YOU WILL SEE IN THE USA BEING FAITHFUL TO MY GENES: TABBOULEH, BABA GANOUSH, CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA AND RICE ARABIC ICE…
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…
Nowhere in the world have I felt affections at their sweetest, at their most innocent, so genuine than in my dearest island, and its capital, San Cristobal de la Habana.…