Tag: featured
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إلى القاهرة
أكتب رواية بعنوان “انتظار” وأحب الغوص في القصة كل صباح واكتشاف أين تأخذ القارئ ، وإلى أين تأخذني! سأشارك بعض أجزاء الرواية في الترجمة العربية، وأتمنى أن تستمتعوا بها ما هي هذه الرواية؟ تدور هذه الرواية حول شاب يحاول الوصول إلى والده عبر الحدود بين الدولة السوفيتية وفنلندا في عام 1920. وأيضا بعد حوالي خمسين…
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A One-Minute-City
Have you ever taken part in a community design process in some way? As far as I remember, I did such things in the seventies every time there was a need to embellish the neighbourhood together. The reward for doing this was usually a soft drink of red or yellow colour, someties maybe even some…
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Between Public And Private
The difference between the desert and the city of Nouakchott is striking, but on a second thought there is something about the city that marks the visitor with strangeness and resemblance of the desert, like vague echoes from just outside the city where the vast space of sand and quietness hits you on the face.…
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Once A Bedouine
The Mauritanian tent has found its way to contemporary architecture in Nouakchott. If you stroll the streets of Ksar, one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, you will not miss the tent shape in practically every other house. It’s a symbol of a lifestyle in which the movable home is now built in cement…
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Live Your Dream
You may know that Dakar is a peninsula surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean in the north, west and south, which gives the city much needed winds from the sea. The winds bring advantages: they keep the air clean for breathing and they also keep the mosquitoes at bay outside of the rainy season, or at…
J.K. Pikkujämsä 