madny

Raouf and I have gone our separate ways (we argued. stupidly) and so it is only right that Madny comes to an end, as I can't make it min...

My friend's family is worse than my family, I know. Her mother says things to her like: 'You'll never have children'. I don...

The first of several half-thoughts. It is a maturing process I am going through. Finally at the age of 33 it no longer appeals to me to be ...

There was a moment during the hour I spent at the Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now exhibition at the Barbican that I realised I w...

Westernisation or the adjective, 'westernised' is a word that is I've come across a lot lately in my reading and at political ha...

When I was living and studying in Poland I saw an icon of the virgin Mary . It is called The black Madonna ,and " she" is the prot...

Salata Baladi - a film by Nadia Kamel for list of upcoming screenings in France, Egypt, USA and the Netherlands see schedule below مواعيد ال...

I am hungry and it shows. Not just for marble cake. I am baby/man/sex/love hungry. My appetite is voracious and terrifying I begin to see. I...

( The 'tow '/ two spelling colour codes: red is what I have added; the blue is what must be taken away ) Raouf: Man and Hyena Fascin...

‎ When Elly moves from her deep sleep, she is like the whale in the ‎Sindbad story. When the poor Sindbad had swum from his broken ship, ‎la...

will i ever get any space i wonder

This I overheard from a man in one of those phone booths in an Internet cafe. I stopped and tried to listen further, but it was a muddled mo...

"This girl from Harar watched me with curiosity as I snapped pictures of the butcher and his wife. As she lingered behind me with a gag...

To Elly ‎ wish you more IN :‎ ‎- practical steps towards interesting creative work‎ ‎-deep analysis of what is happening around you ‎ ‎-peac...

Really I do not know how to describe this photo. It reflects a feeling of waste and sadness. In the beginning I thought I would call it ...

I did not invent the expression 'phantom pregnancy'; Lenin used it to show his frustration at the way a political movement came to ‎...

By maternal decree, this is my birthweek ; not because the poor woman was in labour for that long but because the very great woman loves her...

You gender the one who deceives and betrays exclusively as a woman, Raouf. So are you presenting us again with an Eve or with the Sirens or ...

‎‎In Arabic is called 'a lying pregnancy'...‎ I prefer 'a wishful pregnancy', because I want to write about disappointments ...

The art exhibition, 'Sex and joy' He says putting the exhibition together has taught him "how similar we are in terms of images...

Sisters! ‎ ‎Do you remember this great face and the fantastic girl... I commented ‎on her at the very beginning?‎ She is an elder sister to ...

El Balakounah ! It is an Italian word we use – as with many other words in our daily dialect: terso , secondo , robabieka (old junk) premos...

This is her time to relax: With a cup tea! In addition, maybe a shisha! Look at this woman. She is in her house, in her daily house clothes...

I woke myself with a high-pitched miaow. It was me - as Perdita - dying. She was very bony to the touch at the end; stroking her felt like r...

We call cats “best!” … the ancient Egyptian 'Cat-God' is called BEST ... There was a recent discovery in the Delta of mass graves of...

Because of the shortage of baking places to bake bread, and because of the bad quality of the bread baked enmass, lot of individuals took up...

Two photos with astonishing meanings: Girls are sitting with their back to what is happening behind them. Boys are looking straight forward,...

It was a terrible moment to receive a letter (not a love letter) from the one I love, and such relief to allow myself to love again for a bi...

Sitting in front of their shop, the old men show their profession: they make things from cotton: mattresses, cushions and usually for the ne...

What age do some people begin working? Who stole from them the joy of a slow and normal growing up? He is selling some secondhand shoes. Sit...

The Elly is getting wild!waoo She is not anymore "Elly" she became in a rare of metamorphism: The Elly and I think that happened d...

http://www.sonsofeilaboun.com/links I got this link in my mail. It is short but very moving... you will discover why. Here is a Palestinian ...

I can't stop insulting men. Nice men - I am sure they are nice men, but I hate them and I haven't even met them. I joined an Interne...

The post Elly wrote about Munich made me feel a bit uneasy about my feelings towards "home", whatever it is: the motherland or fat...