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Put the pen to paper to tell your stories
A synopsis of a life
Stories of my life and times
Happy children learning at school in Morocco
The enemy of the teacher
The hardship of a teacher's job
An artistic representation of the Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto
The original gothic novel
A volunteer worker teaching English in Morocco. Learning foreign languages, such as French and English, has given Moroccans access to different cultural viewpoints and improved the nation's capacity for cultural adaptation
Morocco and its multilingual power
Our use of language shapes our identities and is a fundamental component of who we are as people
Photos of the victims of the Holocaust at the memorial Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, Israel. Photo by David Shankbone
What was the Holocaust?
The victims of Nazism
Alex Rezvan (left) and Ted Wachholz (right) of the Eastland Disaster Historical Society in Chicago, USA
History of exhibitions outcome with Alex Revzan
Creating a memorable experience for visitors
An open working place where everyone can analyze and observe everyone in the vicinity
The working place
A familiar strange
The kingdom of Swaziland is one of three remaining monarchies in Africa. The official name of the kingdom of Swaziland was changed to Eswatini
Eswatini
One of the few remaining monarchies in Africa
A lady busy writing on her typewriter
The writer's challenge
How tough is it to be a writer?
An ancient male beauty competition in Africa that blurs the rules of cultural patriarchy
The Ubuntu Conundrum
The tussle between tradition and culture
Lighting the match on individuals to cancel them from the spotlight
Cancel culture
Is it what it seems?
In a society created by different brains and patterns, a man's social environment is a major influence in the forming of a social man
The impact of the environment on social behaviours
When humans act in certain ways, are they acting by their own will or following the patterns set by their social environment?
Hands painted with the world, doves of peace flying about
Analysis of peace
The hierarchy of universal order's foundations as a clue to achieving world peace
The teachings of Ibn Khaldoun author of The Muqqadimah (1377)
The Muqqadimah and world history
An insight into the approach to understanding the world
Archeological Sarnath Museum, Uttar Pradesh, India
Sarnath Museum, Uttar Pradesh, India
Where stones speak of Buddha’s life
The act of balancing on a tightrope in order to effect change in one of its alterations
Balance and resistance, the alterability of change
Reflections of a transformative dynamic
Haci Bektas Veli was a mystic, humanist and a philosopher who lived approx. from 1209–1271 in Anatolia (Central-Turkey); his teachings had great impact on the Anatolian cultures
Is Alevism the solution?
The Islam/Christanity bridge
Poems being enjoyed over a couple of tea with the scatterings of nature in its surroundings
William Butler Yeates' The Second Coming
The brilliant poem that led to depression and beyond
Archeological excavation being conducted by locals during the late Ottoman Iraq
Archaeological excavations in late Ottoman Iraq
The Layard legacy
Teacher and students in a classroom; learning time
How to improve your life as a teacher
Be the eye that observes your behaviour
All the members of the colossal group The Spice Girls who were global celebrities in the mid-90s
How I damaged my mental health by idolising celebrities
The enticing allure of the celebrity cult
Marie Antoinette prophesized "they are going to force us to go to Paris, the King and me, preceded by the heads of our bodyguards on pikes."
Marie Antoinette, a youthful education
Was she just naïve and ill-prepared?
National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland, USA
Elizabeth Seton's contribution to the impoverished girls
Seton Shrine by the numbers
The K-Pop group TWICE consists of 9 members and made their debut in 2015
Why is there so much English in Korean music?
The historical and cultural reasons for when and why English is used in K-pop
The bright eyes of a child enlighten the darkness of modern society in hope for a better future
Humanity
Are humans an advanced species or primitive pieces?
Sarai Sanchez Prieto is that "girl"
I am “that” girl you hate
The one you fear and desire
A family assuming different poses some with their partners and some are single
The value of family and the price of being single
Evaluating the cost of both worlds
Peruvian author of Open Pit, Jose Antonio Villarán
Interview with author Jose Antonio Villaran
Open pit mining in Peru
Nok statue. Most of Nok's sculpture is hollow and coil-built like pottery, finely worked to a resilient consistency from local clays and gravel, the millennia-long endurance of these ancient objects is a testament to the technical ability of their makers
A population that once was...
The giant of Africa!
The universe as timeless
Humanity seen from the universal laws
Human nature through the universal essence, principles and laws
The bust of Skanderbeg in Geneva, Switzerland
Skanderbeg
The national hero of the Albanians
Kuragala village in Sri Lanka
Drum makers’ Village Kuragala in Sri Lanka
Making the beats of rhythm
Korean Monastery with people smiling and looking happy
An interview with Barbara J. Zitwer
The Korean book of happiness
Photojournalist and licensed tour guide Eva Soproni with her private clients, Vatican City
Guided city walks of Rome
Captured behind the lens as in postcards...Cartoline
Young children of the Mursi tribe, Ethiopia
The Ethiopian Mursi tribe
Discovering the culture of the Mursi tribe
Artemisia Gentileschi *Cleopatra* (1635)
The allure of women rulers
Queens on canvas and beyond
A depiction of the Ashtiname of the prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Islam's paradox and the insult
The Ashtiname of Muhammad
Elon Musk owns Twitter and wants to leave his mark on it
The ‘Elonification’ of Twitter
Where blue ticks have become red flags
The dance of the Bacchants, by Charles Gleyre and Friedrich Nietzsche
Liberating will
Romanticism
The new era of Covid-19
The virus vs traditions
New conventions are being born
The Amazighs women, known for their strength, bravery and attachment to their freedom
The free people
The women Amazighs of Tunisia
A painting portraying Gulliver being tied up by the island people of Lilliput
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
Not suitable for children
Adivasis from three regions and tribes of India, at Worldviews Vikalp Sangam @ Ashish Kothari
A clash of worldviews
How the modern world can learn from Indigenous cultures
The patriarchal society we are living in...
Gender inequity
The difference between being a man or a woman
If a man is walking alone in nature, is he truly alone?
Today’s truly big questions
Has the world returned to nihilism?
The jigsaw to the equation of teamwork is almost always puzzling
The 1+1=3 social equation
A personal exploration of the concept of teamwork
A stroller left alone in the park as it's getting dark
Alone in a stroller
Why Danish women left sleeping toddler outside New York restaurant
Women holding empowerment signs
Feminism in our era
Social development in the patriarchy
Man is standing alone at a beautiful sunset
Humanity seen from universal principles
Our human nature
A sign to remind us that humanity's progress is still a work in progress
Progress? We can’t even manage dot-to-dot
Humanity's evolving devolution
Love is an open canvas to life
A drink of space
A contemplation of life
Visitors at the British Museum admiring the Parthenon Marbles
Conservation of the Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum
“Good intentions marred by the occasional cock-up”
The Bellosguardo hill in the 19th century: the “Anglo-Florentines” between art, passion and mystery
The Anglo-Florentines in nineteenth-century Florence
An interview with Paola Maresca
Burial - Toraja, Sulawesi
Torajans: a culture that lives with the dead
The populace of Southern Sulawesi in Indonesia
American University of Rome graduate student intern, Shannon Zipfel in Room Six: From emancipation to today
Interviewing Shannon Zipfel
An American intern at the Jewish Museum of Rome
The empty classroom was a major proponent of the new normal as students and professors took to online lessons due to COVID
How COVID changed student performances
The new normal
Women of all ages sit in protest in Bangladesh
Let's make way for women!
Taking back the power of feminity
Adivasis (Indigenous people) in Korchi, central India - struggling to protect their territory against mining and state-dominated decision-making ©Shrishtee Bajpai
Colonisers and colonized
Why do the formerly colonized become colonizers?
Fantasia, The Tbourida, a major component of Moroccan ancestral heritage
Moroccan Tbourida
A major component of Moroccan ancestral heritage
A masked woman stared the coronavirus pandemic crisis in the eyes as she tackled her day
Revisioning every day amidst coronavirus crisis
How the world stood together in solidarity
A woman enjoying her reading of a copy of Mary Shelly's novel Frankenstein
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
A search for community and identity
the Gurkhas soldiers, from Nepal
Tea with Gurkhas
the world’s bravest infantry soldiers
The Thinker statue is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin to illustrate the philosophical quandaries that human beings undertake
Either philosophy or abandoned hope
The 13th dialectical symposium of the World Philosophical Forum 2022
Peter O'Toole playing the role of TE Lawrence in the 1962 movie entitled "Lawrence of Arabia"
TE Lawrence and the Arab Revolt
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The juxtaposition between nature in the foreground and man's abuse leading to a toxic climate change in the background
Toxic male psyche and climate change
The domination of man over nature
A trans woman with rainbow glitter on her cheek and the rainbow flag in the background
A little less biological fixation, a little more compassion
Understanding the trans community
The Bhakti movement encouraged expression of all forms
Devotionalism: an aesthetic escape for women bhaktas
The relationship of religion and women in the Indian context
The universe is made of energy and matter
Humanity as seen from the universal essence
Continuous transformation of energy into matter and matter into energy
Foggy forest, Great Britain
Old Britain
The sheep and the wolf
Amazigh woman. Numerous ancient Greek, Phoenician and Roman texts attest to the existence of the Berber people as the first occupants of North Africa
The Amazighs of Tunisia
The free people
The BILL, Biblioteca della Legalità (Library of Legality) shelves with books and publications on the culture of legality and justice
An interview with Flavia Cristiano
The BILL - Biblioteca della Legalità (Library of Legality)
Jill Alexy at the Bramante Staircase in the Vatican Museums in Vatican City
An interview with Jill Alexy
The founder of SeeTheSacred
The hot sun isn't just in summer anymore
How to stay cool using less air conditioning
What we can learn from African know-how
US Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima, Japan
Manny Greer's experience in World War II
The soul of a soldier
Where to begin and how to be accurate with our words
Phonetically misled
It's not easy getting a straight answer
The mirror can realign our identity and objectives
Mirror, mirror on the wall…
The feminism charge led by Wollstonecraft
Godfathers listen to all incoming advice as it pertains to the role before making the next move
Godfatherhood
An offer not to refuse
President Joe Biden reacting to a letter received by Honorary President Jeffrey Levett of the World Philosophical Forum
Confronting social dementia
Sequential letters: before, after and in continuum
Dr. Isaac Amon, Director of Academic Research & Program Development, Jewish Heritage Alliance
Interview with Dr. Isaac Amon
The story of Sefarad
Helen Keller sniffing a pink rose and capturing the essence of the smell
'Story of My Life' by Helen Keller
There is a world beyond what you see, hear, taste, smell, and touch. You can always feel it.
A closed bookshop with a myriad of published books
Publishing is a closed bookshop
Unless you have a slingshot in your pocket
Vedic literature gives insight into the bhakti model of its time
Devotion as the continuous civilizational strand in India
A historical analysis of devotionalism: Harappan, Vedic and Puranic Traditions
Aerial view of the capital city of Islamabad, Pakistan
The sights, sounds, and souls of Pakistan
Pakistan's culture and traditions
A pregnant woman in her final trimester holding the stem of a healthy flower anticipating her miracle
The miracle
Forever being
Reaction at JFLK airport to an American Judge's decision to overturn President Trump's motion to ban Muslims from immigrating to the United States
Is immigration a threat to security?
Spread of jihad through migration
Vickie Frémont was inspired by the African tale of the hummingbird bird, bringing one drop of water at a time to put out a fire
Vickie Frémont: saving the environment, one step at a time
The story of the Hummingbird Program
An interpretation of the journey of William Godwin's Caleb Williams
The psychology of William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
Curiosity killed the cat
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish fought with the pen and lived to be 67 years old
Reading the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish
The pursuit to preserve the Palestinian identity
Newborn baby: special attention had to be paid to the protection of the baby’s health and fortune
Born and raised in the Balkans
Superstitions and customs for a newborn's prosperity
The caravan of Marco Polo, from Atlas Catalan, by Abraham Cresques, 14th century
The quest for Cathay
The lies of Marco Polo and Cristoforo Columbus
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, exhibition at Mori Arts Center Gallery in Tokyo. Stage mannequins © Alma Reyes
Chanel, Alice in Wonderland, and Kees Van Dongen
Women in art and fashion
Denarius illustrating Judaea Bar Kochba Revolt, 132-135 CE
An interview with Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman
The Jewish Rebellion against Roman Rule in Judea
Auroville, India, the international township created by The Mother (Mirra Alfassa)
Sri Aurobindo’s 150th anniversary
The religion of humanity
A young woman waving LGBTQIA+ flag under the sky
When ideas become God and science is heresy
The struggles of our times: women’s and LGBTQIA+ rights, and even the danger to free speech and thought
The fruits of Johannes Gutenbeg and Tim Berners-Lee's labour
From Johannes Gutenberg to Tim Berners-Lee
Little bits of history repeating
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