Le Monde Diplomatique contains a very interesting article (larded with the customary anti-democratic spin) on socio-religious change in Egypt. In it Patrick Haenni and Husam Tammam identify four common attributes of Cairo’s photogenic prophets of personal salvation: Almost all are the product of secular education and their religious knowledge is that of the dilettante; they…
Vaig veure i treballar un parell d’anys amb 150 monjes velles holandeses. Miraven Ajax en una pantalla gran i bevien cervesa. Aquestes són diferents: irlandeses, de Galway a l’oest d’Irlanda.
I met this bloke at around nine last Sunday morning as I was cycling along the old road from Manresa to Calaf on my way to the Aragonese Pyrenees. As you probably won’t be able to discern from this appalling photo–it was raining and I was quite surprised–he was brown and dishevelled, accompanied by a…