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About.

Travel the world, as an independent photographer, imagine life.

Learn, understand, tolerate, enjoy, live - inhale different conceptions of life (all that TV [and the web] cannot give).

An Amazigh saying from the Moroccan Atlas: Those who rush are already dead. And Alain de Botton in The Art of Travel: Journeys are the midwives of thoughts. Take time and ponder - is from myself.

Land Rover Defender 6x6
Link to Foley

The prime vehicle is a cool 6-Wheeled Land Rover Defender, Foley's made, which needs a lot of caring attention. Some times we use other transport, however - with fuel prices up and shortages to come maybe we switch entirely, - some day.

The idea, adventure, project had been growing in my head for years. This feeling inside, the desire to leave and live a different life, it made it too easy to give up a job, give all other stuff away and hit the road. 22nd of June 2004.

In May 2005 I meet Hasna, Moroccan, she comes along! We are married, have two twin boys, Daniel and David. This Fab Trek continues. Photography and Journey, Story of Life Around the World.

I love Music, Art, Festivals and photography there off.

This is us.

Hasna, Manfred, Essaouira
Manfred in the desert of the Western Sahara
Hasna Essaouira
Hasna wedding Austria
Daniel left and David right
Daniel David, in Land Rover 6x6x, beach in Djembereng, Casamance, Senegal
Daniel and David on Bonnet of Land Rover 6x6x, on way to Casamance Senegal, eating Bananas.
Daniel and David with nanny Aisha, the best we ever had, black African Woman carrying white twin babies, in Bamako, Mali.

The Journey
as it happens.

Fcontains Festival/Art photography.

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Opinion - on Africa in general.

Festivals.

On the Western Sahara Issue.

Amazigh pages.

Human Rights

Health Issues - in Africa.

Environment - in Africa.

Music - in Africa.

News and Analysis, Africa in general.

  • Panapress - the African Perspective.
  • Afrol news - an independent news agency, established in 2000 covering exclusively the African continent, in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
  • Peace Reporter - is an online newspaper and an editorial agency aiming to spread a culture of peace and respect of human rights. Offers concise, up-to-the-minute information on conflicts around the world.
  • All Africa - aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources.
  • L'Intelligent Jeune Afrique - weekly in French, Politique, Economie, Culture et nulle part ailleurs.
  • Le nouvel Afrique Asie - French-language monthly of information and analysis.
  • The Daily Star - Lebanon.
  • Africatime.com - founded 2000 in NY by 5 African students with a vision to create a respected portal for all African News.
  • African News Dimension - The idea for AND came out of the desire to provide an authentic voice for African issues on the global news stage.

on Islam, in general, "You will never understand my religion!"

"I want to remind non-Muslims to refrain from making statements on something (Islam) they do not understand," Malaysian Justice Minister Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz.

  • University of Southern California - Compendium of Muslim texts. English translations.
  • Engaging Islam, Africa's religious fault line - by Martyn Drakard, 17 March 2006 on MercatorNet. Both Christianity and Islam are in Africa to stay, and it is in everyone's interest to try to understand the other.
  • Wafa Sultan's blunt and provocative interview Interview on Al Jazeera 21 Feb 2006. "Clash between the mentality of the middle ages and that of the 21st century, ... modernity or barbarism". Stirring something up. See the video then go for the more critical and thought through contributions in the middle section of the blog.
  • Opinionated Voice - another good blog re Wafa Sultan's interview.
  • Islam: Muslims Divided Over Penalty For Apostasy - on Radio Free Europe.
  • Unfathomable Zealotry - from the Washington Post March 28 2006 by Richard Cohen. I have been looking for a paper that sums up my own thoughts about the subject (murder of a person for his religious believes) for a while. Is it our not understanding of Islam?... our intolerance for their culture?... "...frightening to confront how different we in the West think ..." Cohen concludes: "I can embrace an Afghan for his children, his work, even his piety -- all he shares with much of humanity. But when he insists that a convert must die, I am stunned into disbelief: Is this my fellow man?"
  • Muhammad Caricatured - The portrayal of Muhammad is not universally banned in Islam. By Stephen Schwartz. 20 Feb 2006, The Centre of Islamic Pluralism.
  • Islam's threat to democracy. by Alexis Stuart, The Press, New Zealand on 09 August 2005. "A question needs to be asked. Is there within Islam a context in which politically alienated young men in particular can be radicalised? Or, in other words, are thousands of young men fanatics because of some legitimate interpretation of Islam or are they politically alienated fanatics in spite of it? And there is a follow-up question. Is moderation in Islam a consequence of a deeper understanding of that faith or is it more the result of its modification by Western values of tolerance?"
  • Islam condemns violence? Sometimes it's only opportunism. by Fr Samir Khalil Samir, an Egyptian Jesuit and professor of Arab and Islamic studies at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. - September 06, 2005.
  • The real Muslim moderates. - Jeff Jacoby in The Boston Globe on August 18, 2005.
  • Muslim strategy aims for rule of Islam in Europe. - Garth George in the New Zealand Herald. 18/8/05.
  • Jihad - in the Quran and early Islam.
  • Jihad - in the Quran and early Islam. Part 2.
  • Jihad - The Economy of Death in the Quran. Martyrdom, a bargain?
  • The world of Islam and Mohammad's successor. The great rift between the two Shiites and Sunnis branches.
  • Islam Online - News and knowledgebase.
  • Islam World - Articles on virtually anything.

Women's rights

  • Ni putes ni soumises - organisation in France. Pour la mixité, la laïcité et l'égalité. Fights for womens' rights especially from an Maghrebian immigration background.
  • Femmes sous loi musulemanes - Women living under muslim laws, in French and English. An international network aiming at strengthening women's individual and collective struggle. Their links page is extensive re this subject.

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