Someone acclaims Hicham Tahir, someone else attacks him: this young Moroccan writer, 24 years old, has recently published his first personal collection of short stories, "Jaabouq" (Casa Express 2013, 128…
Michele Benini16 October 2013
Zeeshan pulls out his smartphone, opens Grindr with few touches of his fingers and finds out that about 250 meters another man is connected. The picture shows a beautiful chest,…
Pier Cesare Notaro6 September 2013
A gay guy replies to an ad on the Internet, but he is not welcomed in the place of the appointment by another homosexual, but by a dozen of neo-Nazi…
Pier Cesare Notaro28 July 2013
Brazil is large as a continent and, even without considering the size, contradictions don't seem to lack. Or at least this is the image you get by the news, that…
Michele Benini26 July 2013
Bulgaria is one of the less mentioned European Union's countries and even the protests that started in the beginning of the year can hardly reach the front pages of newspapers, although…
Michele Benini24 July 2013
Turkey is not an Arab country and protests in Turkey are not an Arab spring. Yet, Turkish tensions and the ones that inflame many countries of Northern Africa share various,…
Pier Cesare Notaro23 July 2013
Sidi Bouzid, Cairo, Athens, Barcelona, Santiago, Moscow, Tel Aviv, New York, Bucharest, Sofia, Istanbul, São Paulo... Impressive mass protests have characterized the last few months, leaving bewildered even the most…
Pier Cesare Notaro21 July 2013
Same-sex marriages between two Muslim believers, like the one celebrated in France? They are more and more frequent around the whole world, but they are "haram" (not permitted by Islam),…
Pier Cesare Notaro4 June 2013
His pseudonym is, by itself, an artistic manifesto: 2Fik seems strange, but, read in English, has the absolutely common sound of the "real" name, Toufik, of this photographer. With a…
Pier Cesare Notaro2 June 2013
God loves lesbians, gays and transgenders. This is a certainty for the imam Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, founder of the first inclusive mosque in Europe and of association Homosexual Muslims of France and…
Pier Cesare Notaro20 May 2013
Bradley Secker (website) is a British indipendent photojournalist now based in Antakya, Turkey. His pictures and interviews tell stories of real people, giving a face to those countries (Iran, Syria, Turkey,…
Pier Cesare Notaro15 February 2013
