Last in line from Baghdad

No one wants them to stay, but they don’t know how to go back.
Some arrived in Amman with their pockets full, today they are begging the United Nations for a mattress.
Other have sold their daughters, still others are taken for mad or try to build themselves a life within hospital walls.
They have triggered a gold mine of revenue and funds, stemming from international feelings of guilt, drug companies and care programmes. Yet they are and they remain unwelcome guests.

The Old City

Spanish soldiers, Genoese adventurers, Armenian doctors, Greek intellectuals, Kurdish refugees, Rom musicians, transsexuals, Africans and artists of the new Underground movement: The cultural capital of Europe in 2010 is where everything began, from Greek villas along the Tarlabasi Ave.
But the new Istanbul will no longer be a place for impoverished neighborhoods.
And in Constantinople they are waiting for the bulldozers to arrive.

Nights of Oil

Every weekend streams of crude oil run through Bahrain.
For 48 hours they will do the things they cannot do at home.
They will pour out all of the excess petroleum, each day more precious, down where
the financial crisis never occurred.
A journey among debaucherous Saudi princes on the island of injustice.
In the middle of the most heavily armed Gulf in the world.

Mediterraneum:
The middle east page

 

"The middle east Page is the second step of "Mediterraneum": a long-term project in this corner of the world, the origin of our civilization.
Costal populations share a single culture and a common history, their identities defined by borders both between people and societies.
At the center: men and women of ancient memory, born of the same light.

Mediterraneum: The arab page

"The Arab Page is the first step of "Mediterraneum": a long-term project in this corner of the world, the origin of our civilization.
Costal populations share a single culture and a common history, their identities defined by borders both between people and societies.
At the center: men and women of ancient memory, born of the same light.

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