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Don’t get me wrong but I find the embarrassment being heaped on the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy for his part-reliance on a ficti...

An occasional blog; an alphabetical abracadabra of language musings. D octor Dawkins, Darwin’s discerning dissuasive disciple, dismissing ...

The Izibongo of Blackeen Barna I read in one sitting recently the political/historical book Invictus by John Carlin, republished un...

I recently came across a quirky blog called Cycle Chick from Copenhagen, dedicated to an advocacy of all things bicycle but particularly ext...

An occasional blog; an alphabetical abracadabra of language musings. C homsky’s Cartesians contend, conjuring Canaanite culture’s concise c...

I do not get to the gym as often as I’d like and because there are significant ‘epochs’ between my attendances it is like a dead man walking...

An occasional blog, an alphabetical abracadabra of language musings. B ecalmed beyond Babel's boreal breakwaters Being becomes bellic...

An occasional blog , an alphabetical abracadabra of language musings. A n ancient anonymous astronomer analysing axial astral altitu...

I went with my daughter to see Avatar on Sunday evening. I bought the tickets and she the sweets and ice cream. A fair deal! The movie was ...

Going Nowhere Fast Going Fast Nowhere Morning Walk The Front Garden

Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai, Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his pomp, Abode his Hour ...

Rihla (The Journey) – was the short title of a 14th Century (1355) book written in Fez by the Islamic legal scholar Ibn Jazayy al-Kalbi ...

The picture above is of the two necessities carried in a Toyota landcruiser when traversing the Ramlat as Sab’atyn desert in Yemen in March...

To Madeleine in Australia, Fateme and Amir in Iran, Michael and Penny in Bangladesh, Tom in Denmark, Mary in Paris, Peter in Abaco, Karen in...

Shortly after posting my last blog about the death of Ramin Pourandarjani I received a text informing me that a friend, Dr Rory O'Connor...

Dr Ramin Pourandarjani and a torture sculpture by Ahad Hossein in the Azerbayjan Museum of his home city of Tabriz, Iran . In your thoughts ...

Dubai Creek 1946 and 2006. The Wind Towers of yore replaced by the Air-conditioned towers of now. John, my neighbour, committed suicide earl...