Farewell to a dancing ’17. Hello to a grand ’18
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Farewell to a dancing ’17. Hello to a grand ’18

Here, we reach that time of the year, when we somehow slow down from within. Winter didn’t arrive that early this year and we were still experiencing autumn like weather at a time it used to be snowing several years ago. Well, that doesn’t have to be a bad thing at all, we still had…

Getting it done! Getting over the PhD blues
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Getting it done! Getting over the PhD blues

  There has been a lot of discussions in academia recently about research studies that focused on the mental hygiene of PhD students and the amount of pressure they undergo that can easily develop into what is known as the PhD blues. I love what I am doing, I love my flies, I adore my…

A summer full of new ventures
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A summer full of new ventures

[aesop_quote type=”block” background=”#282828″ text=”#ffffff” align=”left” size=”1″ quote=”The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. ~Eleanor Roosevelt” parallax=”off” direction=”left” revealfx=”off”] Here is a retrospect to what happened after our Swahili doodles workshop just in case you…

Marwa & the Fellas week in Petershagen
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Marwa & the Fellas week in Petershagen

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…

Arts as a common language – a workshop with Saleh al Shukairi
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Arts as a common language – a workshop with Saleh al Shukairi

ZEF was our venue, an international intercultural hub in Bonn. The German Omani Association, Arabia Felix GmbH and the Embassy of Oman were our main donors, IHV Bonn were our partners, Saleh al Shukairi was our guest and the language we had in common was ARTS. My friend Hind and I thought of turning our…