Month: February 2014

STIVIANDRA Couture is named after its instigator,  Miss Angola of 2006 and later Miss World Africa. This courageous and gorgeous woman becomes a star in Angola and evolves into a veritable business woman. She now lives between Paris and Luanda.

Through Peggy Kelsey’s well researched and complete book ”Gathering Strength – conversations with Afghan women” (Pomgranate Grove Press, 2012) our preconceived images drop one after the other and the reader discovers a new and exciting world.

Since Pharaoh’s times sarcasm has been used to criticize both society and government. Egyptians are known for their sense of humour despite decades of dictatorships, censorships, terror acts and lately even bombs. If satire is enough to create real changes is written in the stars though.