18:11:00. I stand, speechless, motionless, captivated, on my roof terrace and stare up at the massive cloud extending above our city. The dust has cleared. The colours are beautiful – every imaginable shade of pink, burnt orange, fluffy white, dark purple is reflected against the stark blue of a late summer evening sky. Grey swirls […]
Read more "Two Minutes to Zero"I live on the first floor of a narrow little eggshell-coloured house that somehow survived 15 years of Lebanese Civil War. It looks like it might fall apart at any moment, yet there it stands. My small house, which is not beautiful, is located 1400 metres away from the epicentre of the Explosion of August 4 […]
Read more "My Little Civil War House"Strangely enough, you do not see any missing posters for the dozens of irregular migrants – Cubans, Bangladeshis, Nepalis, Senegalese, Gambians, Syrians, Somalis – that disappear each year as they hope to traverse this seemingly small segment in their long route to safety, to asylum, further north, to the United States or Canada.
Read more "Enter the Green Pits of Hell – the Darién Gap"One of the aspects about New Orleans that I find most remarkable is its resilience in the face of disaster. It takes a very special city to arise from the ashes and rebuild itself.
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How to get out of it alive 