Reading: Gordon Mathews — Ghetto at the Center of the World

I once stayed a night in Chungking Mansions, when a flight from Canada arrived too late to catch even the …

Occupy the World

Published on Sunday, October 2, 2011 by NYC General Assembly Declaration of the Occupation of New York City by NYC …

Places

Because I seem to spend so much time in Brussels, and also have lived in several cities which until now …

the sound of the people gives me hope

There has not been enough of this in my lifetime. It’s almost 4am, I should be going to sleep but …

Reading: Reza Negarestani – Cyclonopedia

reza negarestani – cyclonopedia

Burka Bondage

The past couple of months Dasniya has been rehearsing with Helena Waldmann, in a piece she helped with last year …

Reading… a 3rd anniversary

Regarding the two-score books of the last year, it is surprising which of the non-fiction – a term I use …

Reading: Peter Hopkirk – The Great Game

peter hopkins – the great game

eating: lamb and fresh fig tajine

Michael came back to Berlin for the weekend, a welcome surprise that coincided nicely with my weeks-long desire for a …

(Some) Stuff I Read This Week

For some reason I decided to start using Twitter again — I suspect iPhone — and without any clear purpose …

germany is (slightly) embarrassing itself

Reading signandsight’s From the Feuilletons this week… it’s been dead in my feed for some time, but returned with excellent …

reading: hanna arendt – eichmann in jerusalem

reading: hanna arendt – eichmann in jerusalem

reading: juan cole – engaging the muslim world

juan cole – engaging the muslim world

reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust

reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust

I am a Muslim

Coming to Berlin caused my attention to drift to a small part of my life I know little about, and …

reading: edward said – orientalism

edward said – orientalism

reading: primo levi – if not now, when?

primo levi – if not now, when?

reading: christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road

christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road

reading: iranophobia – the logic of an israeli obsession – haggai ram

iranophobia – haggai ram

Reading: Katherine Pratt Ewing – Stolen Honor – Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin

katherine pratt ewing – stolen honor

Reading… a 2nd anniversary

My reading the last year has not been of either the volume, nor the breadth of the previous, in no …

orgy of tolerance

To have your idols disappoint. It is a delicious sensation. And probably inevitable, necessary. My Friday Antwerp wanderings, despite the …

reading: ohran pamuk – istanbul

ohran pamuk – istanbul

reading: ahmed rashid – descent into chaos

ahmed rashid – descent into chaos

greg mortenson – three cups of tea

greg mortenson – three cups of tea

blog stuff

I shouldn’t be on my laptop today; I am bad. Working around 12 and sometimes up to 16 hours a …

Annemarie Schwarzenbach

And so I discovered Annamarie Schwarzenbach, who to a certain kind of Berlinerin is probably quite famous, yet in English …

Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence – it’s a war crime

This letter of attorneys and academics appeared in the Times of London on Sunday. I suggest that all bloggers who …

Top Ten (Plus 1) Good News Stories in the Muslim World, 2008 (That Nobody Noticed)

Cheerful Saturday morning reading I thought I’d post in its entirety, though I do think anyone who has the slightest …

reading: chris horrocks and zoran jevtic – introducing foucault

chris horrocks and zoran jevtic – introducing foucault

transgender day of remembrance

For any queer trans* Berliners who read me, there is a meeting tomorrow night 6pm, at my favourite bar, Silverfuture, …

Reading… an anniversary

A year ago in the briefest of lines, I began keeping a list of the books I’ve digested… burp. What …

gute aussichten – junge deutsche fotografie

My last full day in Berlin, an afternoon adventure with someone who takes rather splendid photographs herself of derelict amusement …

Juedisches Museum Berlin

I went to the Juedische Museum Berlin today. juedisches museum berlin – 1 juedisches museum berlin – 2 juedisches museum …

Global Voices Summit – Budapest

Some of my favourite and also most inspiring bloggers, writers, wonderful computer and internet people are all in Budapest for …

Reading: R.H.C. Davis – A History of Medieval Europe

a history of medieval europe

Reading: Nasrin Alavi – We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs

nasrin alavi – we are iran

Reading: Daniel Ladinski Trans. – The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, The Great Sufi Master

hafiz – the gift. trans. daniel ladinsky

Reading: Afghanistan – Louis Dupree

afghanistan – louis dupree

Reading: Rosanne Klass – Land of the High Flags: Afghanistan When the Going Was Good

rosanne klass – land of the high flags

more feeds and things … and blogrolls

A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs …

Reading: Charles Stross – The Atrocity Archives

charles stross – the atrocity archives

reading: terry pratchett…

terry pratchett – mort terry pratchett – the colour of magic terry pratchett – equal rites terry pratchett – thief …

friday atheist re-blogging

Being the day when a carpenter who has fantastically scant evidence for ever having existed in the first place was …

sunday morning avoiding-work blogging

More stuff I’ve read in the past two weeks for your amazement and occasional pleasure, though because everyone’s taste is …

iranian typography now

Japan design magazine PingMag has a long feature yesterday, Iranian Typography Now. It is one of the most sublime features …

some stuff i read this week

Lazy Saturday afternoon post-dragging myself out of bed and thinking of going climbing pretty soon, but first a random trawl …

some new blogs

About a week ago I was doing something and ended up splurting “contemporary dance” Melbourne into Google Blog Search. I …

i shit on ya – sheik taj aldin

Someone recently said about a United States school kid who got hauled up by the FBI for sedition over a …

what i’ve been reading today

Another list of completely unrelated stuff that circulated through my news feeds in the last couple of days and makes …

we are no longer human

I really, really urge you all to read this article that appeared in Rolling Stone, The Unending Torture of Omar …

torture is evil unless we’re doing it

It was a unique moment today, killing time between rehearsals and reading the latest issue of Dance Australia while dozing …

I know that I AM

Today was emotionally really shitty, the kind of day I want to finish by getting wasted, all teen-punk angst. Lucky …

supernaut is lazy (but can read…)

I’d probably be better using del.icio.us for all the stuff I read, but I found on top of keeping supernaut …

a quarter of a billion – an addendum

I had some doubts this morning about posting the previous entry. And more doubts since reading R.J. Rummell’s blog more …

a quarter of a billion

I’m taking a bit of a break from blogging, the return to Australia has left me with a disembodied sense …

don’t bomb us – al jazeera goes blog

Somehow, I think through one of the feeds I subscribe to, I stumbled upon what is one of the best …

nusra in karachi

I know I keep on saying Nusra Latif Qureshi is one of the most amazing artists in the world, but …

exotic bodies heavenly products

Two artists who always give me a thrill when the invite for their latest show lands in my inbox are …

women’s social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy

I have pretty much steered clear saying anything about the great neo-colonial escapade in Iraq, despite keeping up with the …

nusra latif qureshi – intentions of memory

Nusra Latif Qureshi, who has long been one of my favourite artists in Melbourne and has been storming out stuff …

UAE Sharjah International Biennale 7

The UAE Sharjah International Biennale 7 opens in a couple of weeks in Sharjah Art Museum and the nearby Heritage …

sabeen raja talk

Pakistani minature artist Sabeen Raja is in Melbourne to exhibit her works at Axes Art Space and Gertrude Street Contemporary …

nusra +naeem’s new gallery

i’ve written about Nsra and Naeem a couple of times in the past. I met them both when I was …

baghdad year zero

I haven’t written about the war in Iraq, or the radical conservative politics and coming elections either in America or …

cairo’s modern dance festival

Walid Aouni, the founder of Cairo Opera’s Modern Dance Theatre has just finished the fifth Festival of Modern Dance, which …

nusra + naeem again

In June, I wrote about Nusra and Naeem’s art, and their exhibition, at Counihan Gallery, which opened a couple of …

Chinese Mountaineering Team on K2

The climbing season on K2 has kicked off, with 54 expeditions attempting to summit the mountain made famous by prominent …

Nothing happened in Palestine

Yesterday, Melbourne’s The Age ran a front page story on a work by two artists in a Flinders St gallery …

The ‘new’ Silk Route

A new treaty has been signed by 23 nations at a UN meeting to create multiple landlinks between Khabarovsk and …

AlJazeera on Time’s Hot-100 list

The founders of the news channel everyone loves to hate has been voted one of Time Magazine’s World’s 100 most …

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