This is why I will always love UK

Kuala Lumpur review: the jungle will devour it given half a chance (despite its concessions)

Steampunk

The Japs really did not behave themselves in Asia did they

The two wolves inside me

to you

Explaining to a Bosnian how overwhelmed I was to meet Hind Rajab's mother, not knowing how to add I am always already overwhelmed speaking to Bosnians

There's an actual drinks cabinet/trunk in my room

Sitting at a formal dinner making myself think of moments where I've been wronged, almost making myself cry in frustration, in order to not be manic pixie dream hag AGAIN #lifehack

Some freight problems

Good as Guinness

Today in lanyards

Roti and Bree for breakfast

This is excellent drama but also hilarious because the music is ney and oud #Orientalism101

Sleepless in Asia

Ok, this is a look

Ya girl has taste (Monteverdi my go to background for working)

Maaaaaaan

Having my T without the G at the Christmas pool with Flashy

Pure sugar snack

No, Zionists will not turn the Levant antisemitic with all their claims

Can't believe it's 363 years since that slag John Evelyn recorded skating on the frozen lake in St James's Park, London, watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine. Still freaks my nut in to this day

I have written about 'the great American unravelling' in Eddington and One Battle After Another www.dailysabah.com/arts/reviews...

I try to pay a pilgrim's visit to this every time I'm in Oxford

All this fuss about the Elgin Marbles when San Marco is FESTOONED with Byzantine plunder

Pope being here is all very well, now can we get all our shit back from the 1204 looting

Going through my London Film Festival photos I found this photo of me trying to walk into the wrong theatre, realizing it's The Voice of Hind Rajab, and now having seen the film, seeing it was the breaking the fourth wall/mise en abyme moment

Yessssss

In further news, one of the staff trying to match the face, the abaya and the accent asked 'Are you Scottish?'

the Social Network film is really funny now. Apart from the idea of Zuckerberg being fast-talking and quick-witted, every cameo character is in the Epstein emails

Making the abaya pay its keep

Pulp Belle and Sebastian DakhaBrakha Mariza Imany

One of the beautiful things about festivals is how films start to rhyme. In the Iraqi 'The Lions at the River Tigris' a man is trying to save the porch of a destroyed house, in Spanish 'Sleepless City' Roma man looking at destruction of his house says 'it took me years to build that porch'

Ready for my 'office for the day' post?

My Uber driver speaks a pidgin I can barely understand but when I manage to get the payment through he says laughing 'you landed that one' I'll assume it's cricket speak 😄

Doha classic. A study in how can we raise the calories on this dal

Happy reviewer moment! Once Upon a Time in Gaza directors have read my review and they like it! (we fist bumped when they realized I was the reviewer) www.dailysabah.com/arts/reviews...

Hanging out with the cool Iranian (and Turkish) kids. Y'all need to watch Divine Comedy!!!!

This kinda happened to me once

And now the QUEEN panel

Woody Allen is dead, long live Woody Allen

There are so many punchlines in Ali Asgari's Divine Comedy I don't know which to quote. Guy's a genius.

Are we still doing diner journalism? Because today at a greasy spoon in Stateline, Nevada, a 65 year old birder named Maryanne told me that she likes that “Mamdonnelly” fellow and thinks that Donald Trump is a pedophile.

'Oh, an arrow, sooo original.' You had to hand it to St Agnetha, she remained an eighteen carat bitch right to the very end.

Was gonna go see an Iranian film but a dabke group just appeared at the lounge. Some middle eastern problems.

FINALLY got out of the future and come to the reconstructed past

Let's just say that I have this drive to put myself in situations

does it get better after 85

Don't know how they managed it but the tea is finally hot and tastes of tea this morning #someTurkishproblems

These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art