In the search for the law of cause and effect in an exclusively external world, modern science has had incomparable...
When one sprains their ankle or has an aching knee, they might rub a pain gel on the swollen joint...
A new flute was invented in China. A Japanese master, upon hearing the beauty of its sound, took the flute to Japan and played it all over the country. Once, after playing the flute in a small village, there was hushed silence and then the oldest man present said: “Like...
“Sahara” is the main theme of this year’s Culturescapes festival in Basel. A series of films by Tunisian filmmaker Nacer...
“Here, the audience adds something. Through perception, through listening ‘from outside,’ the ‘unheard’ becomes possible.” This is how author Marc...
Midway through a four-week lesson period in a 10th grade trigonometry class, two questions for the assembled students: What grade would you give yourself for your oral participation? Are you putting in an effort right now or are you slacking off?» Everyone comments and I note the self-assessment. A week...
He was drawn to the sea. At age 20, he joined the French Navy and began navigating on the surface...
Intimacy is within and without. In the aridity and solitude of the desert, I am thrown back on myself, while...
Actors and actresses play. They play with fire. They play with something that is very close and very intimate to us: human action—our actions. That is why we call them “actors”—because they shape actions; they perform acts. All art, all play, involves distancing ourselves from the so-called “real world.” It...
Ibrahim Abouleish stood under the expansive sun awning, and a thousand Egyptians sat with their forearms propped up on the...
When I look back on my life, I realize that I was often able to take great steps when others...
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