Tag: PrayforParis

Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten To be sure, the attacks meant different things in Paris and Beirut. Paris saw it as a bolt from the blue, the worst attack in the city in decades, while to Beirut the bombing was the fulfillment of a never entirely absent fear that another outbreak of violence may come. Undoubtedly, people die in such attacks around the world on a daily basis. It has to happen in some Western metropolis to reach the attention of mainstream media. In people’s minds the Middle East is where such things happen, most of…

Hey everybody, I hope you are all safe this weekend… A lot of things happened this week in terms of world affairs, from the Myanmar elections through the EU’s migration summit in Malta to the Syria peace talks in Vienna, but one sad event tops all of them. Let me just say I was worried from the very first moment that this will add fuel to the extreme opinions regarding the refugee issue, and indeed it did. In my country this is most certainly the case, and I think all over Europe they think they now have a seemingly legit…

a-night-in-wonderland: Paris turned out their lights as a sign of mourning but the rest of the world lit them up again.