IF IT'S DIFFICULT TO BE WHO YOU ARE / ISN'T IT MORE DIFFICULT TO HIDE IT

WHEN YOU OVERSTEP THE LIMIT // IT'S GONE #loesje

Mariana & @juliamosaique enjoying international cooking #perspectives in london

iMPETUS GA now live from Berlin, Istanbul, London, Mainz, Maseru and Palo Alto! Lots happened in 2011, more to come in 2012!

Perspectives from iMPETUS member living in Lesotho: Q: Do you go out? A: Yes, there's once nice bar. PAUSE. Well, there's one bar.

After the death of Kim Jong Il, a look back at "Inside North Korea", 37 photos from August 2011 - theatln.tc/oYZvcC

what will change in 2012? via Reporter ohne Grenzen #globalperspectives #democracy # freedom

I am a Yemeni watching the Egyptian president oath in the Libyan city of Zawya. A superb Arab Spring moment! #Morsi #Egypt #Libya

Voltaire: ‘I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it’

POWER TO THE WORLD LOVERS / INSTEAD OF THE WORLD LEADERS #Loesje

A buzzing planet approaching a #population of 7 billion human beings http://www.worldometers.info/ #global #challenges

In a few minutes we kick off the first iMPETUS Online Meeting on the situation in Egypt // with Cairo, Istanbul, Berlin, California, et al.

Amazing conference call with Yasmin from Cairo who gave a first-hand account of Egypt's revolution! Viva l'Egypt! Power to the people!

Next iMPETUS conference call on 5 June; topic this time: #Yemen Special guest will be Ibrahim Mothana chairing @CEistanbul

RT @juliamosaique the smell of freshly cut grass #mondaymorning

RT @juliamosaique lunch with delegations of young Israelis & Palestinians in Berlin, talk on gender issues - more like that! iMPETUS

"Nationalism is not based on common memory, it is rather based on common oblivion" Ernest Gellner during a lecture in Ankara in Dec 1993

PROFIT IS PRIVATE / LOSS IS PUBLIC

My AJE article: #Yemen: Thinking outside the AQAP box bit.ly/m1by0Z #Saleh #Alqaeda