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The Pope Francis held his third Papal speech in Rome in front of tens of thousand pilgrims who, for some, had travelled from far away. They stood silently in the pouring rain, listening to him. His speech was a cry of help for Oriental Christians, massacred by Islamist fundamentalists. What is the world doing to… Continue reading Help the Oriental Christians

The retrospective exhibition at the Museum Galliéra, in Paris, show some of this fashion icon’s most sumptuous creations. It’s a dive into another era, a time when fashion was a way of living. Fashion à la Jeanne Lanvin is creativity as its best.

To find out I went to see the excellent movie Citizenfour. It’s the documentary about Edward Snowden’s divulgation of classified documents. The film doesn’t only give us an over-view of the magnitude of the global system of surveillance that we’re all subjected to but it also led me to wonder about other cases. Such as… Continue reading What does it imply to be a whistle-blower?

This question the Swedish Institute in Paris tries to answer with a different exhibition. The opening was quite an event and the Parisians were apparently interested in the creativity of our small country. 

8 March is celebrated globally but some countries like Sweden find it obsolete. Is it really so? In this article I’ll try to answer that question.