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Village life in the West Bank

Travelogue: Palestinian Minister of Culture and award-winning author Atef Abu Saif wants to highlight the rich cultural heritage and bring the art to the people.
Vibeke Harper -

Neighborhood in the North

Trine Eklund writes about experiences from her peace and dialogue journey in Russia. Why does the West draw an enemy image and impose sanctions on the country, she asks. She thinks we have no reason to fear our Russian neighbor.
Trine Eklund -

Travel letter from Crimea – one year after

We are pleased with the people of Crimea that the bleak picture presented in Western media does not match reality.
Aase Vig Berget -

To leave his house

Henry David Thoreau's famous house at Walden Pound was both a political, architectural and ecological act. 
Alexander Carnera -

Seven days in Crimea

The picture Norwegian media consumers get of the situation in Crimea is anything but correct.
Hendrik Weber and Mette Rosenlund -

A Sodom by the Sea

When the tabloid press visits Thai Pattaya, some vulgar sex tourist is always portrayed. Thus, the fact that the city is a magnet for the martyrs of formation is underlined.
krutzkoff@hotmail.com -

Instinct and deception in Tel Aviv

Some must give Israelis the red pill, the one that causes the veil to fall. 
Vibeke Harper -

A memory book from Moscow

Well spread out over near 50 years I have visited Moscow several times, the first time in 1967. It has been reasonably contrasting experiences.
Halle Jørn Hanssen -

Iraq: Ferris wheel and big politics

Rarely have I seen such high density of amusement parks, and rarely have I experienced such a strained silence.
Tori Aarseth -

A wonderful city, a sad city

Beirut: The disaster has its own logic – slow, slow, people live their lives. How does a crisis appear? What signs should we learn to read? And what does it mean to write in a time like now?
Kirstine Reffstrup -

An illusion of freedom

Dubai facilitates a comfortable, lethargic lifestyle – at least just comfortable enough to avoid a proliferation of fertile culture.
linefausko@gmail.com -

Flaum in the Eden of Europe

When Cannes senses the effects of climate change.
Mette Karlsvik -

The center of the world lies in Sunnfjord

Artist mobility seems to be a good thing for both the traveler and the city he travels to.
Mette Karlsvik -

The town's throaty rope

TRAVEL LETTER: It's not for nothing that this is the most mythologized city in the world, and perhaps one of the most fussy.
Ole Robert Sunde -

Breivik and Roof: Oppressed and marginalized

There is a shorter route between Utøya and Charleston, South Carolina than one would think. The roads there are paved with offended, lonely, white masculinity.
MODERN TIMES -

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