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Nov 20, 2015, 4:37 PM

With the hostage crisis in Bamako this morning almost exactly a week after the attacks on Paris, its clear that ISIS are trying to set the world on fire, in the same manner as the Bardo, and the hotels...

Nov 15, 2015, 4:10 PM

Ici c’est Paris, not Jerusalem

I tried publishing something the other day in response to the reactions in the Israeli press to the attacks in Paris, mostly reacting to the comments, because: way to go Israelis, you’re showing such a kind supportive face, you’re...

Oct 20, 2015, 4:59 PM

Lynch vs Law: which one rules?

Haftom Zarhum crossed the Sinaï where criminals kidnap his people and sell their organs, to make it to Israel to seek asylum, because he believed in Israel’s flaunted democracy against the dictatorship and terror havens of the region. He was...

Sep 27, 2015, 7:18 PM

A Flying Carpet from Syria to Mexico

Well technically from Italy. I will get into that. You may have read my two previous blogs on the Habesha Project, a volunteer humanitarian project based in Aguas Calientes, Mexico, with the dream of resettling thrity Syrian refugees to Mexico...

Sep 14, 2015, 9:10 PM

AfroSF: Imagining African Futures through Science Fiction

When we imagine close encounters of the third kind shaping human civilization, our mind goes to Africa and Egypt. When we think of a continent infused with legends, spirits, ritual possessions and a world vision that blends the mundane and...

Aug 16, 2015, 10:49 PM

Tel Aviv and Gaza at the Seine

A pro-Palestinian protest against an Israel-themed beach party should have offered much more than mock corpses

Jul 2, 2015, 3:34 PM

Mississippi Burning

Well, it’s not Mississippi, and even if it were, it wouldn’t just be Mississippi. Predominately black churches in the south have suffered a string of fires since the fatal shooting in Charleston, some of which were ruled as arson, while...

Jun 6, 2015, 3:20 PM

Love, Hate and Israel

Of course we love Israel! French authorities and the Orange CEO couldn’t repeat it enough. Orange’s move in Israel is a commercial one, and not reflective of any political leanings on the non-existent peace process. It matters very little that no...

Feb 13, 2015, 7:02 PM

Of Friday 13ths and Valentine’s Days

It was still too early for the seeds to blossom, yet late enough for the mirth of Yuletide to fade with the embers in the hearth, carrying unto morning the last of its warmth. And so it was that...

Jan 17, 2015, 1:08 AM

In the early days of Islam, the word Koran hadn’t yet come to mean the book, and the Prophet’s followers were sometimes quoted as saying having received a Quran from the prophet, meaning one of his teachings. How can one...

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About Me

Mame Bougouma Diene is a civil servant on permanent vacation even when he works 70 hours a week, who also blogs for the Times of Israel in French. He's French-Senegalese American, loves Israel and the Middle East, would really like to see an end to this intractable mess in his lifetime.