Football brings histories

UEFA Euro 2008, ok, I told myself I should not write about football even tough It is almost impossible not to think about it here in Vienna.
The matches played in Vienna brought me many memories from my childhood, time when already in my school, boys and girls were introduced to sports – and I hated [...]

Keys of Palestine

What makes people happy?

Again I returned to my favorite subject – people – Yesterday I  was talking to some friends during our seminar interval and, I don´t even remember how or whom complained about the day and how depressed it makes you feel when you´re not treated well. I was a everyday complainer on this subject, living in [...]

GAZA – BLAST FROM THE PAST

I spent years of my life being involved with Palestinian solidarity groups, researching Palestine history and following very close their drama and suffering.
How hypocrite is our recent history , the governments and organizations  behind Israel foundation.
After 1948  millions of families  became refugees in their own (before) country, enduring daily humiliation under a gun point Zionist [...]

Silence

Friday in the main street
with look in madness
little to say – unless
to drink in lips the last sips of wait.
The next moment gets depressed
I’m here in challenge
Marking the time
Swallowing silence
Swallowing silence

Sara Bernal – Alain Leroy is in the crowd

Alain Leroy is alone, looks around but can not recognize anybody… so noise, so absent, so superficial. The self destruction path is surrounded by ghosts from the past, and the only way out is the way to himself, disconnected from the world. This is the image I still see -Alain Leroy , is present in [...]

Xenophobia is nothing new in Europe

I don´t know who you are, what´s your background, your skin color and, if you are from Europe, if you ´d come from East or West – this makes a huge difference here.
What can we expect from politicians is just what we expect from ourselves and this is what upsets me most, how on earth [...]

Letters never Sent – Ways out of me

“Why don’t I write you once? Why not? That’s easy. I haven’t yet received a single line from you in response to my many postcards. Nevertheless, out of the boundless goodness of my heart and since I want to consecrate the first day [...]