Catching Connections It is 6 PM on a Friday night. As I walk through Utrecht Central Station, I hear a song echo through the hall. On my way to catch my train which will depart in twenty minutes, I stop and watch a group of people of all ages form a circle around a piano….
Behind the Largest Protests in Israeli History
The Protests As Israel marks its 75th anniversary, the atmosphere is filled with unrest and polarization. Earlier this year, protesters flooded the streets of Israel. The demonstrations continued for weeks, their numbers swelling to half a million in a nation of nine million people. The images are striking: demonstrators amass in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem…
Political Thrillers: A Brief Outline
Political Thrillers: A Brief Outline Despite claims that films nowadays are ‘too political’, the genre of political thrillers has been alive for decades and continues to entertain. For a political thriller to be good, it is important that it finds a realistic or allegorical plot; after all, it is not simply a thriller, but a…
Where are the melting clocks, Samara?
Where are the melting clocks, Samara? complete loss of subjective self identity — yeah. that one. ignition. like — fundamentally tired. tired. where is ego going to die? — a concrete jungle. (i want to go home) where are they going? (it’ll take me a day to get to the dining table) where are…
unbroken
unbroken my home is not broken. a little rough around edges, yes, misshapen with love. half-baked with the tardiness of doing things that require too much time minutes before they are due. my home is not raw. deconstructed, slightly, intended and executed. it is strewn with the calm objective that puts too much on a…
I want to be bored.
I want to be bored. When I was a child, one of my worst enemies was boredom. However, as I progressively get older and grumpier – and excited about a new laundry detergent –, who would have thought that I would begin to miss the feeling of not knowing what to do. Suddenly, I feel like I…
Turkey-Syria Earthquake: The Shock was just the Start.
Earlier this month, an earthquake struck Turkey and Syria. It had a magnitude of 7.8 and has claimed the lives of over 45,000 people accordingly to recent estimates, with many more injured or missing. The crisis was exacerbated by the freezing temperatures that afflicted those stranded outside or trapped beneath the rubble. What happened?…
Don’t buy me flowers
Don’t buy me flowers. They may represent the beauty Of the life we live together They will one day die And I hope our love never will. Don’t buy me chocolates. They may taste as sweet as the “I love you” That you utter each day They will one day disappear And I hope…