SAVE Yemen Thoughts on International Women’s Day
A member of SAVE Yemen reflects on the unstable situation in the country and remembers the women of Yemen who will not be celebrating International Women’s Day this year. On March 8, women worldwide will celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. These women celebrate women’s successes and all their political, social and economic [...]
Christmas Vogue and the Lure of a Bright Tomorow
Image via Wikipedia It was Boxing Day and Jobey and Lea, our English friends with whom we often share the Christmas meal had departed and I looked forward to a more temperate diet with perhaps some exercise? Before me I found a copy of ‘Turkish Vogue’, and after the stress of ensuring the Yorkshire Pudding, [...]
Israel – Palestine peace: A tale of two women
The World today celebrates the International Peace Day. I wish peace for all nations. My particular concern is the peace in Israel/ Palestine where my roots lie. This was my second visit to Nablus. However, the first wasn’t a visit as such. In 1991 I received a call from my brother in law urging me [...]
Princess Misha, Sakineh Ashtiani: Tales of death, religion and politics
I was young, once; we all were young. I could overhear murmuring coming from my eldest sister’s bedroom about ‘mawt amira’- death of a princess. I felt sad; when we are young, princesses and princes are associated with fairy tales and have influence over our fantasy worlds. But this was no fantasy. In the case [...]
The beginning of the end of the Landlady
Part three of the fantastic story of Carolyn Steele’s career as a landlady of a B&B in Canada (part one is here and part two is here) It wasn’t Fay who finished me off in the end though, it was the guests. You’d think that a nice little B&B tucked away in rural Ontario, where [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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