Sudan – Reality


Sudan is not about flash weddings. Or flash anything. It mostly the opposite.

The characters you meet


MB is in Doha airport heading to God knows where. He arrived too early on account of not taking proper look at his fligh ticket earlier today and not being able to remember the departure time from two days back when he booked the ticket. It’s a man thing.  Some Phillipinos are nattering away in their native Tagalog a few meters from where MB…

A Week Of Women – Day Nr 5


Soul MB spent much of 2012 & 2013 in Saudi Arabia. He lived in a small hotel across the street from the Imam University. He often met the young Imams who would come in to have a coffee and study their religious books and notes before exams. MB spoke to many of them and was often invited or encouraged to join the religion of the…

A senseless death…


Originally posted on don of all trades:
We arrived at the Children’s Hospital Emergency Room at the same time. He and his partner parked and I pulled up to their left and did the same. I got out of my car and watched as the officer hurried from his seat and opened the back, driver’s side door. When the officer grabbed the boy from the back…

Weekly Photo Challenge – Wall


The HX region has over 5,500 years of continuous human habitation dating to the neolithic period. On the road between HX crossroads and the nearby lake of Lough Gur lies the ruins of an old church called Teampall Nua (New Church – in English language), which dates from the 17th century. From The Lough Gur website (loughgur.com): New Church replaced an older chapel which…