All France is fearing the heat-waves… hardly 40ºc. I remember once, in Duhok, going out to the garden, i felt that the air was fresher and nice after some weeks of dog-days. I checked the weather-app and read "today, only 40ºc" :lol: In Kurdistan, heat-waves is more than 45 ºc during one m...

Soon Erdogan will invent a plot and a coup from CHP and will send in jail all his lucky rivals

Keeping spiders away is not a good idea. Spiders are good cleaners by themselves.

Of course, some people are allergic to spiders' bites. But in Duhok, the house was full of jumping spiders, tiny and multicolored, which don't bite. They were cute.

Another interview to come soon.

Used people as slaves to copy documents without allowing them to learn English, so they had no idea what they were doing

Funny difference: we taught French in all our colonial schools then the African-Algerian independentists took inspiration from our own Revolution

Cricket is a game that only Brittons & Indians are able to understand.

But I remember to have enjoyed the novel : The Taliban Cricket Club by Murari. It is a funny and good story about cricket, feminism and freedom.

https://www.amazon.com/Taliban-Cricket- ... 0062091255

Elections of a muxtar (sort of mayor) in Mardin. 2 families shared their political opinions… with weapons, sticks, stones : 22 wounded.

No need to make investigations about Turkish repression behind election casualties : some Kurds are helpful.

Summer disintegrates the tiny brains in some Kurdish heads. For one week, 2 wars among tribes oblige Kurdish and Turkish forces to play the local White Helmets' : In Akrê, Zerzeris and Herkis are arguing with kalashnikov, grenade, etc. The motive :a youth's fight. In Riha (Urfa) Izoli tribe is torn ...

https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/ ... _3246.html

the paper version is longer.

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Nice paper about my novel in Le Monde (the French New Yorkers, for ppl who don't know).

Funny for a witch.

The problem with Rowlings is that she swore to never write more than the 7 books of Harry Potter, but she does not seem able to leave definitely the series. So she makes a lot of "à-côtés", but not very convincing and useful. Perhaps it would better for her to stay in the universe she crea...

Tiring but nice and beautiful week-end.

Tempest is coming from the sea and I will go to Saint-Malo facing the angry elements during 3 days.

I am still searching the best position to read.

I might try this seat :

https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B016J310K0/?co ... _lig_dp_it