Nachruf: A tribute to Fatima Mernissi

I MET FATIMA MERNISSI in the late 80s on an assignment for BRIGITTE magazine in Casablanca. It was an Algerian-Moroccan conference of Arab feminist women. The Moroccan women were supporting their Algerian sisters who were suffering under a double repression, from the military as well as muslim hardliners. Mernissi, the Moroccan sociologist, scholar and restless

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Happy mwaka mpya to you!

We’d like to thank everybody who was with us this year from Sansibar to Mallorca, from Bodrum to Rügen, from Hamburg to Berlin for the kind moments, thoughts and joy shared. We hope to see ya all in Zanzibar in 2016! We wish you and your loved ones a wonderful, exciting, peaceful, healthy and love-filled

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Muchas gracias, Mallorca

Magig islands – from Zanzibar to Mallorca. Andrea Tapper liest auf Mallorca über Sansibar: Unter diesem Motto hatten wir unsere „Malle-Lesetour“ und meine Mallorca-Recherchen für diverse Zeitungen und Zeitschriften gestaltet. Und, was soll ich sagen: We had a wonderful, wonderful time. We loved it – especially Ahmed, totally enamorada con Palma de Mallorca, Santa Catalina,

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Bestseller? Bestseller!

Gut gefischt. Solche Körbe verkaufen sich jetzt auf Mallorca – und unser Buch sich offenbar gut in Berlin. Das Berliner Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann hat „From Sansibar with Love“ unter „Persönlichkeiten“ ins Bestseller-Regal gestellt (untere Reihe, 2. v.l.), und meine Freundin Christine hat’s entdeckt. Dussmann, we love you!!!! http://www.kulturkaufhaus.de/de/   Wir sind weiter auf Mallorca und hatten

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