From the monthly archives: September 2009
Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus spoke Zarathustra (or Thus spake Zarathustra according to the older, and more arcane sounding, title) is an ocean of deep thoughts and rare feelings. Pictorially, it is a high mountain, with a chilly, rarified atmosphere, as Nietzsche himself intimated: “the air of my writings knows that it is an air of the heights, a [...]
مقالي الجديد المنشور في جريدة أسواق حول العمل الورقية الأمريكية (أنواط) الملوثة بالكوكائين. My new article just published in Aswaq Newspaper. The subject is the amount of residual cocaine on US dollar notes. http://www.aswaqnews.net/ArticleNews.aspx?Id=1507&IssueId=33
The feeling is horrible: on a searing hot Gulf day, stuck on the highway (or at least what passes for highways in Bahrain), in a very long queue of cars, bumper to bumper, motorists fuming along with their exhausts. It’s more like a procession than a highway. You’re claustrophobically cooped up in your mobile sacrophagus, while [...]
Jen artikolo kiun mi skribis pri la araba lingvo. Afable publikigis ĝin mia doktega amiko João dos Santos en sia Karavelo en la 16-a eldono.
In a business course I took recently, our septuagenarian professor decided to give us a take home exam. He probably got more than he bargained for, because afterwards there was a queue of students in front of his office inquiring about their grades. I didn’t get the grade I’d hoped for, but what really irked me was that he [...]
Jen estas artikolo kiun mi skribis arablingve pri Esperanto. La celo estas publikigi ĝin en arablingvaj gazetoj por informigi arablingvanojn pri la internacia lingvo. Se vi povas helpi kun tio, bonvolu kontakti min. This is an Arabic language article I wrote on Esperanto. The idea is to publish it in Arabic language media so people [...]
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