The Iranian oasis town Yazd is known as the capital of wind catchers. Its surrounding province has around 500,000 inhabitants. The ancient city was built in around 3000 BC and has many historic clay buildings built in narrow streets and an amazing, century-old water system. In 2017, it was declared a UNESCO heritage site. UNESCO …
The Tropentag is a development-oriented and interdisciplinary conference. It addresses issues of resource management, environment, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food, nutrition and related sciences in the context of rural development, sustainable resource use and poverty alleviation worldwide. Tropentag decided to visit Bonn during the year 2017 and under the theme:”Future Agriculture: Social-ecological transitions and bio-cultural shifts”. …
I would like to live my life to the fullest. I would like to be able to look back and say: been there, seen that and done this than to look back and say what if? I prefer to err and fall than to stand still, at least I will eventually learn from my mistakes …
Here is a retrospect to what happened after our Swahili doodles workshop just in case you have been wondering what happened next and where I was heading! Well, I was going home and despite the fact that it was almost 50 degrees centigrade it always feels good to be back in Oman and even better …
The city of Cairo is a sprawling metropolis of now eight million inhabitants in its inner core, which has witnessed an Europeanising of its urban fabric some 160 years ago under Pasha Ismael who was inspired by French squares and boulevards after visiting the World Exposition in Paris in 1867. Afterwards, Ismael initiated the construction …
Towards the upper most region of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, we decided to travel all the way from Bonn to approximately 10 kilometres northeast of Minden and precisely to the little town of Petershagen on the banks of the River Weser. The trip from Bonn to Petershagen lasted for around 6 hours, the journey started …
I am somewhere between Bonn & Frankfurt, so many little villages and a beautiful river passing in between..Although,I have been really busy & didn’t have a lot of sleep the past few days,somehow the beautiful scenery outside the window of this ICE train forced me to reflect on the past week and urged me to …
Two years ago, the idea of spending two years on a field research in Kenya seemed overwhelming. Yes, it seemed like forever and it seemed a bit risky. The 6 months prior to traveling to Kenya, Marwa was fully absorbed in preparations. She was planning her research and reading more about a place she never visited …
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