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November Broadcast - Martina Nicolls
MARTINA NICOLLS - NEWS AND UPDATES FOR NOVEMBER 2020
Hello everyone,
I am still in Paris, where the government has announced another national lockdown for one month until 1 December 2020, although this will be reviewed in late November.
This email includes updates on Paris (where I am currently staying), my animal website (Similar but Different in the Animal Kingdom), my aid development work, articles, photography, and general points of interest. For my aid development work, I am currently working on flexible deliveries for basic education in rural Somalia for children of nomadic and migrating families, including addressing the educational challenges for internally displaced persons (IDP). I am working remotely, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Regards, Martina
PARIS BLOG Have you read my blogs about Paris on my website: The Paris Residences of James Joyce? Here are some recent blogs. Read blog: The buzz of bees in Paris - about bees and bee production in Paris. Read blog: French Asterix comics - Albert Uderzo, the co-creator of the Asterix comics died in March at the age of 92.
Read blog: Felix Potin building in Paris: - about the story behind the beautiful former department store. The photograph of the Potin building can be viewed and purchased HERE.
PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO Top sellers last month on my photography portfolio site were elephants and a binturong (an arboreal mammal from south-east Asia). Here is the elephant photograph. ELEPHANT FAMILY: TAKE A LOOK AT THE PHOTOGRAPH AND MERCHANDISE
More photographs and merchandise are available HERE. During the November lockdown, I'll update the portfolio.
MY WEBSITE: SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM Some popular posts in October on my website, Similar but Different in the Animal Kingdom, were the following: Read article: Does the Mexican Walking Fish actually walk? Read article: European Crane Fly Read article: Tanzanian Blue Ringleg Centipede
POPULAR BOOK REVIEWS On my blog site, Feast & Famine, I include book reviews. Here's a popular one about trees from the perspective of activists trying to save them. Read book review: The Overstory by Richard Powers.
POPULAR BLOG POSTS On my blog site, Feast & Famine, the most popular blog last month was a July article on birds. Another popular blog was a photography blog on a Sunday Walk. Read article: 50 Birds at the Paris Zoo at Jardin des Plantes. Read article: Sunday Walk: in the botanical garden in Paris.
AID DEVELOPMENT WORK Here's an article I wrote in 2013 when I was in Uganda about examples of significant African scientific research that is influencing the global science agenda. Read article: The role of Africa in advancing science.
THE PARIS RESIDENCES OF JAMES JOYCE My latest book, The Paris Residences of James Joyce, was released on 1 May 2020. READ MORE:
The Perfect Mentor pbuh (2011) is set in Lahore and Islamabad in Pakistan. The novel commences with Imama Mubeen in medical university. She wants to be an eye specialist. Her parents have arranged for her to marry her first cousin Asjad. Salar Sikander, her neighbour, is 18 years old with an IQ of 150+ and a photographic memory. He has long hair tied in a ponytail. He imbibes alcohol, treats women disrespectfully and is generally a “weird chap” and a rude, belligerent teenager. In the past three years he has tried to commit suicide three times. He tries again. Imama and her brother, Waseem, answer the servant’s call to help Salar. They stop the bleeding from his wrist and save his life. Imama and Asjad have been engaged for three years, because she wants to finish her studies first. Imama is really delaying her marriage to Asjad because she loves Jalal Ansar. She proposes to him and he says yes. But he knows his parents won’t agree, nor will Imama’s parents. That
The manuscript, Flaws in the Glass (1981), is Patrick Victor Martindale White’s autobiography. White, born in 1912 in England, migrated to Sydney, Australia, when he was six months old. For three years, at the age of 20, he studied French and German literature at King’s College at the University of Cambridge in England. Throughout his life, he published 12 novels. In 1957 he won the inaugural Miles Franklin Literary Award for Voss, published in 1956. In 1961, Riders in the Chariot became a best-seller, winning the Miles Franklin Literary Award. In 1973, he was the first Australian author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for The Eye of the Storm, despite many critics describing his works as ‘un-Australian’ and himself as ‘Australia’s most unreadable novelist.’ In 1979, The Twyborn Affair was short-listed for the Booker Prize, but he withdrew it from the competition to give younger writers the opportunity to win the award. His autobiography, Flaws in the Glass
The Beggar’sStrike (1979 in French and 1981 in English) is set in an unstated country in West Africa in a city known only as The Capital. Undoubtedly, Senegalese author Sow Fall writes of her own experiences. It was also encapsulated in the 2000 film, Battu , directed by Cheick Oumar Sissoko from Mali. Mour Ndiaye is the Director of the Department of Public Health and Hygiene, with the opportunity of a distinguished and coveted promotion to Vice-President of the Republic. Tourism has declined and the government blames the local beggars in The Capital. Ndiaye must rid the streets of beggars, according to a decree from the Minister. Ndiaye instructs his department to carry out weekly raids. One of the raids leads to the death of lame beggar, Madiabel, who ran into an oncoming vehicle as he tried to escape, leaving two wives and eight children. Soon after, another raid resulted in the death of the old well-loved, comic beggar Papa Gorgui Diop. Enough is enou
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