• I am reading all day long specialized non-fiction books and journal essays.  That is how life is like when you want to be an Academic in a world [...]

  2012, Early Summer Reading List #Books

  1 May, 2012
• After watching a TED lecture by Sheikha Al Mayassa, a patron of artists, storytellers and filmmakers in Qatar, I had some questions.  First, she [...]

  TED lecture. Sheikha Al Mayassa: Globalizing the local, localizing the global

  12 February, 2012
• Last night I couldn’t sleep. I choose to read some poetry to go somewhere else for the night.  Now I share with you the poem that moved me [...]

  “This Is the Dream” by Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge

  10 February, 2012
• Video: Placido Domingo interprets “Nessun Dorma” from Puccini’s opera Turandot One of the most wonderful events that a human [...]

  Finding the secret of the Prince of Persia in Weimar

  5 November, 2011