Roots and identity, tradition and change
March 2018 Taroudant/Marrakech Morocco
In the Sidi Ayoub area of the Medina (the town inside the city walls) of Marrakesch Abderrazzak El Maana unexpectedly addresses me in my own language with a charming southern...
Hospitality and Inequality
Pakistan, Lahore, September 2019
What is normal?
This question has been swirling in my mind for the two weeks I had the privilege to spend in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Confronted with a different society with different...
The hijacking of the Nashy
2021 July Ukraine Uzhgorod Kushnytsia
In the hills and valleys of the Carpathian mountains in Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, and some other countries villagers speak a language different, though related, to other Slavic languages. So far...
Košice – Ushgorod
Crossing the EU border
Ukriane, Slovakia, Uzhgorod, August 2014
There is airco when the driver feels like it. It is nearly 40 degrees in the bus from Košice in Slovakia to Uzhgorod Ukraine. This will be...
Minsk: Sasha and Korpus kulturtsenter
Living in Belarus
Belarus, December 2017
Nearly three decades ago the Sovjet Union disintegrated, fragmenting into a multitude of states, each developing their own way. I am in Belarus and the sensation emerges the clock just...
Przemyśl, Weronika and Mikal
European youth
January 2016
Przemyśl is a sleepy bordertown in the east of Poland, just a few kilometers away from the Ukrainian border. The river that splits the town in two halves was once the border between...
Invandrare
June 2020 Stillingsön/Uppsala Sweden
Invandrare
“The little swelling in my neck bothered me for some time already but my colleagues said it was nothing. I work in a hospital and they are doctors so I thought...
Beachclub Samotrakhi Greece
Tourism and the EU
June 2011
More than 30 years ago my wife and I had a wonderfull time camping on this relatively unknown Greek island. On the ferry from the mainland from Alexandopoulis the presence...
The future of the Polonyna
2021 7 Ukraine: Kryvorivnya, Verkhovyna, Rakhiv, Ust Chorna.
“I would like to combine two worlds for myself. One world centres around keeping the cows, how to raise our calve for example. I want to learn...
Bow strings from Simone in Amsterdam
Destiny
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2016
Simone looks up from her work to me through the open door of her workshop. She just finished her rolled cigarette. It is a perfect hot early September afternoon in...
