“The key to a healthy society, is a thriving community of storytellers…storytelling is a commodity, it’s a staple, there is no life without stories.” - Franco Sacchi, Italian filmmaker.
Check out his TED Talk, it really is inspiring. Who knew that Nigeria had the third largest film industry in the world; Nollywood? And it seems […]

How fast can someone put a book together on President-elect Obama? Well, on the day after Obama won the election, The Guardian created a Flickr group to find a creative way of capturing the victory. The group, which now has over 1,600 members, quickly became a collaborative effort to send various messages to Obama and […]

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There is really nothing I can say about the events that have transpired in Mumbai. The only reason for this post is for fear that any relative silence from this part of the world be mistaken by the readers of the other side of the world that such a horrific event has gone unacknowledged and […]

“Nearly seven in 10 Jordanians (69%) support greater efforts to make buildings more energy efficient, and 62% would favor the government requiring businesses to use energy more efficiently, even if this might make some products more expensive.” - Worldopinion.org Survey, conducted in cooperation with the Center for Strategic Studies.
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Activists video Israeli police headbutting a Palestinian woman. The group, B’Tselem, said the incident was filmed during Israel’s November 5th demolition of homes built by Palestinians without permission from the Jerusalem Municipality. There are at least half a million Israelis living on illegally-built settlements on Palestinian land, which kind of makes Israel’s demolition of homes […]

Wearing a traditional Peruvian poncho, President George W. Bush gestures as Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso stands below before the official group photo of the 16th summit of the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC, in Lima, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)
I am sure going to miss you…

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Probably the most significant diplomatic trip of the entire year, in my humble opinion. The King and Queen’s visit to Qatar is incredibly important, and may signify the beginning of a thaw period between the two countries that have been at odds with each other for various reasons. Efforts to put this relationship back on […]

It’s interesting, although not surprising, how the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is not even making a blip on the radar screens of international news outlets. But I suppose it’s not their fault really:
Leaders of the world’s biggest media organizations filed a protest with Israel’s prime minister Wednesday criticizing the government’s decision to ban journalists from […]