Category Archives: The Window Seat

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We tried to do something

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Michaela

“We got a message from Tunis,” Hosam Khalaf, a 50-year-old engineer stopped me to say. “And the message was: Don’t burn yourself up; burn up the fear that is inside you. That is what happened here. This was a society … Continue reading →

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Fear of Flying

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Michaela

A few years ago I took a flight from New York to Europe, and soon after the plane started to cross the Atlantic, we ran into choppy turbulences. It was a really bad flight, the plane tossed about by rapid … Continue reading →

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Old world or New Earth

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Michaela

GM and the awakening spirit…this ad has an interesting feel to it. Kids turning their back and listen to a boy spreading his arms like Jesus on the cross. The message is all in black and difficult to make out. … Continue reading →

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Irhal ! Irhal !*

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Michaela

Some interesting reads on Egypt. The first one is a commentary on the bigger picture of  Egypt’t revolution, the US, Israel and Palestinians. The second one a reflection on the fate of a group that may become the collateral damage … Continue reading →

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Old World or New Earth ?

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Michaela

40% more space……. I love to look at the symbolism in advertisements. They do give a message, don’t they ? AirFrance has discovered the “concept” of space while ago and it has realised the paradoxical  dichotomy of their passengers  being … Continue reading →

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Old world or new earth ?

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Michaela

  An ad by Goldman Sachs ….enough said.

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Brave New Earth

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Michaela

As the battle for freedom on Cairo’s Tahrir square rages on, the world watches the wave of change taking momentum. Street Battle Over the Arab Future B.E., Before Egypt. A.E., After Egypt. by Thomas Friedmann At the same time astronomers … Continue reading →

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The Martyr

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Michaela

Khaled Said, a young man from Alexandria, was beaten to death by local police this summer —well before rumblings of the country’s current unrest. But a Facebook page that bears his name has been one of the driving forces behind the … Continue reading →

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The hard part

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Michaela

As the protests in Egypt continues, I cannot help but notice, how everything is in  fact happening simultaneously. Listen  to Mohamed ElBaradei’s Nobel Prize Lecture from 2005 – to me it sounds like a prayer and I have a sense … Continue reading →

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The gyre

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Michaela

This is an extraordinary moment in the Middle East. And what is so interesting is that the common denominator in places like Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen is the fact that you have popular street protests that have no ideology, that … Continue reading →

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