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Torture in Iraq, by Sacco. Part 1

Joe Sacco, the reporter/graphic novelist who did the comics "Palestine", "Safe Area Gorazde" and "The Fixer", has done an 8-page comic for the Guardian about two Iraqis accusing US troops of torture, who are now plaintiffs in an ACLU lawsuit against Donald...

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28 avril 2006

Falling Leaves

Falling Leave by Ameline Yen Mah Set against a backdrop of changing political times and the collision of the East and West, Falling Leaves describes the true and complicated story of Adeline Yen Mah's survival of an abusive childhood at the hands of her...

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29 mai 2006

The Tipping Point

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell writes a study of human behaviour patterns. The premise of this facile piece of pop sociology has built-in appeal: little changes can have big effects;...

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20 août 2006

Mao

Mao Tsé Toung, de Philip Short Une des nombreuses biographies de Mao, par le correspondant de la BBC pendant les années 70 et 80. Mao, qui vécut près de 80 ans, dont plus de 40 ans passées au pouvoir, a eu une influence indéniable sur l'histoire de ce...

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20 mai 2006

In the Shadow of Man

In the Shadow of Man, by Jane Goodall This best-selling classic tells the story of one of the world's greatest scientific adventures. Jane Goodall was a young secretarial school graduate when the legendary Louis Leakey chose her to undertake a landmark...

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19 octobre 2006

Our camera

We are often been asked what camera we are using. For several years, we've been using this one. A Sony Cybershot, DSCV1. It's a pocket size camera, but makes quite good photos, because of its good lense (Carl Zeiss), and gives the possibility to use manual...

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23 octobre 2006

The God of Small things / Le Dieu des petits riens

The God of Small Things, by Arundhato Roy With sensuous prose, a dreamlike style infused with breathtakingly beautiful images and keen insight into human nature, Arundhati Roy's debut novel charts fresh territory in the genre of magical, prismatic literature....

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11 juillet 2006

Revenge!!!! - Vengeance!!!

Frenchies are not happy. They felt they could have won the match and become champions of the world. So Jacques Chirac - French debilitating president - is trying to regain some popularity. He removed his terrible glasses, put some new clothes on, and...

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10 juillet 2006

And the winner is..... - Le meileur ne gagne pas toujours !

There are quite a lot of Italians in Goma and Bunia. But quite a lot of French too... So imagine the ambiance with world cup final looming... We actually all behaved like civilised people during the week-end, saying generalities like "let the best team...

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25 juin 2006

A beautiful day - Notre anniversaire

That was already two years ago. Time flies... Two years ago, on a beautiful sunny day, we got married in Lebanon. Friends and family were there. It was a truly beautiful moment. Since then, we moved around quite a lot: Sudan, Indonesia, Chile, several...

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22 décembre 2005

Next trip ?

We have barely arrived in Congo and we are already planning our next trip... Let me reassure you: we like Congo and we are not planning to leave anytime soon. But it's already 3 months we haven't travelled for a vacation and we feel it's time thinking...

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16 novembre 2005

Souvenirs d'Aceh

Nous avons passé la plupart de l'année 2005 en Indonésie. A Aceh plus précisément, à l'extrême nord de l'île de Sumatra. Aceh a été très durement touché par le Tsunami. Plus de 200 000 personnes y ont perdu la vie. Malgré la tragédie, il faut regarder...

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28 décembre 2005

on a lu.... on a aimé !

L'Evangile selon Pilate, de Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. Poche. Un Secret, Philippe Grimbert, Editions Grasset. Le narrateur est un petit garçon de l’Après-guerre né dans une famille juive. Fils unique, enfant de santé fragile, il évolue dans une maison où...

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27 janvier 2006

Visages du monde / Faces of the World

Throughout our trips around the world, we've met very different kinds of people. Check our new photo album "Visages du Monde" (on the right hand side, at the bottom), where you'll see indigenous people from Borneo, people recovering from the Tsunami,...

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26 décembre 2005

Tsunami, one year on

Aceh, a tiny province on the northen tip of the Island of Sumatra, Indonesia, was the place the most severely hit by the Tsunami. More than 220,000 people lost their lives in a matter of minutes. This tragedy took place a year ago. Heavily involved in...

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31 décembre 2005

2005 in review

We've started this year in Chile. Early January, we found ourselves in the most southern location on earth, in Patagonia. We'll then discover chilean fjords and superb glaciers. We'll climb a still active volcano, with lava just in front of us. Nous avons...

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14 janvier 2010

Grey and windy Wellington

It rained throughout the night in our city parking lot. Apparently parking is hard in Wellington for campervans, with camping grounds at least 10 km outside the city center. We had chosen the best option without knowing it. In fact, parking grounds exist,...

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26 juillet 2006

Elections in Congo

Let me share this news with you. Just shows how making Democratic Republic of Congo really democratic is not an easy affair. From Reuters. "Gunmen have killed up to seven people at an election rally in eastern Congo in an attack which revived fears that...

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12 juin 2006

"FUCK YOU!!!"

So the world cup has started. We're not football fanatics really. But if you live in Africa, you simply can't escape it. And it can be fun, so let's enter the game then. Last Saturday, we head for one bar in Goma, where people gather to watch the game....

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23 mars 2006

Japanese in China

We have to admit it... we are more and more like Japanese... At least like Japanese tourists visiting Paris or New York. More than a thousand (1000!!!) photos... That's what we've taken during our trip in China... in less than 20 days.... Yeah, some are...

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Tags: China

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21 juillet 2006

A thought for Lebanon

“Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as...

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24 juin 2006

Mambassa’s gospel

Yesterday’s evening was a gift. Far from expected, but I guess that’s always like this in Congo. I went for two days in Mambassa, a small city in western Ituri. I stayed at the catholic mission, run by several foreign priests. It is a huge compound, including...

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11 novembre 2007

More tips

- Try out the fantastic traditional khmer massage at B&7, Massage and Spa. Right at the middle of bar street, just close to D’s bookshop. A Traditional Khmer massage is a bit similar to a Thai’s. It was one of our best massage so far, and definitely the...

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Tags: Cambodia

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2 mai 2007

A Night Out

We call Jonathan and he comes to pick us up at our hostel. He lives close to Zona Rosa, the upper side of town, where most of the partying action takes place. He’s a bit surprised we stay at Candelaria. He thinks it’s not really safe at night, and far...

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Tags: Colombia

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6 avril 2007

On the way to Kathmandu

We go to the airport at 4 pm. The plane is on time, we have a long time to wait at the airport of Doha… so excited to get to Nepal. We finally take the plane at 11:45 pm and we’re due to land at Kathmandu at 7 am the next day. As we approach the descent,...

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