In volo sopra la Berlino in bianco e nero. La Gedächtniskirche, i palazzoni, la Porta di Brandeburgo, la Staatsbibliothek, i pezzi sterrati nel cuore della città. il Muro. Gli occhi di Damiel (e del suo angelo sodale, Cassiel) si poggiavano su una città al limite della follia. La città-isola che tutti noi ha affascinato, prima dellaContinua […]

La Casa del Ciuciulìo, o delle Chiacchiere, libera traduzione di Dar al Liwan, la casa della conversazione. Quell’angolo della casa araba che serve a ricevere, a offrire un caffè (magari al cardamomo), e a chiacchierare. Visto che in queste settimane mi fotografano spesso la piastrella che denomina la mia casa di Sambuca di Sicilia, laContinua […]

agrumi a chilometro zero (reale) in fruttiera del Cairo.

Tzipi Livni, who bid farewell to politics this week, won’t be Israel’s de Gaulle. She will not be the leader that shakes us out of our collective slumber. Today, it is difficult to imagine any other Israeli leader having the desire to even try. It’s strange to consider that a mere decade ago, Tzipi Livni and her Kadima party won […]

After Israel boots the only internationally mandated human rights observer group in Hebron, Palestinian volunteers step up to monitor settler attacks amid a sense of heightened hostility. By Steven Davidson About a dozen Palestinian volunteers in blue vests identifying themselves as “human rights observers” made their way toward the Israeli army’s Checkpoint 56 on Shuhada […]

The Abu Assab family home, located in Jerusalem’s Old City, is expected to be occupied by right-wing Jewish Israeli settlers. Nearly 200 Palestinian families in East Jerusalem are under threat of eviction by settler organizations. By Aviv Tatarsky Israeli police evicted a Palestinian family from their home in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City Sunday […]