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By : Sophia Lawler-Dormer January 4, 2021January 8, 2021

I see the glint of their eyes down the barrel of a wave

I see the glint of their eyes down the barrel of a wave.  In Māori mythology, water is considered the foundation of all life. Tangaroa, atua of the sea, rivers and lakes and controller of the tides is the bridge and son of Ranginui (the sky) and Papatuanuku (the earth). Unlike the Western conception of

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By : Sarah Nassabieh October 2, 2018October 4, 2018

A Musical Poem – Translating Memories and Moments into Music

How would your life story sound as a melody? Based on a class session about songlines, a term which describes the Aboriginal Australian’s practice of finding one’s way in the land through music, I wrote an autobiographical poem with a special focus on Berlin that I guide with a variation of Yiruma’s “River Flows in

By : Inasa Bibić May 6, 2014May 6, 2014

Prague Adventure: Or How Traveling Alters Our Perspective

Prague – the city of dreamers, travelers and adventure seekers. There is so much that could be said about the capital of the Czech Republic: from its breathtaking architecture infused with history, to its rich café culture that brings together the old and the new – both in generations and spirit. Prague is a city

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By : Inasa Bibić March 10, 2014March 9, 2014

Hidden Berlin: “Room of Silence”

Pariser Platz, the site where one can find the renowned Brandenburg Tor, is one of the most crowded spaces in Berlin. How many times have you found yourself wandering across it, trying to avoid the massive groups of tourists (especially in spring and summer) admiring the Gate or taking pictures in front of it? And

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By : Inasa Bibić February 8, 2014

Berlin Sufi Ensemble Rabbaniyya: Walking the Path of the Whirling Dervishes

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. (Rumi) Peaceful silence fills the largest hall of the Werkstatt der Kulturen. Around three hundred people inhabit its rows waiting for

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By : Inasa Bibić October 23, 2013October 23, 2013

Summer story from the Balkans: In the Quest for Ecofutura

The image of my home country, Bosnia and Herzegovina––as the “land of adventures”(read here misadventures) in the eyes of many Westerners––has always puzzled me before this summer. Darn…we have come such a long way in terms of infrastructure since the 1990s war, and yet, even the National Geographic placed us on its “Best Adventure Destinations”

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By : Inasa Bibić July 14, 2013July 14, 2013

Das Buddhistische Haus: Oldest Buddhist Temple in Europe

Located in the Berlin suburb of Frohnau, Das Buddhistische Haus (engl. The Buddhist House) is a Buddhist temple complex built in 1924 and therefore the oldest Buddhist temple in Europe. The temple is run by Theravada monks – members of the oldest surviving branch of Buddhism. ‘Theravada’ is a word derived from Sanskrit, and its

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