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Summer has ended, we’re back at work. You will soon discover what we were working on lately and meanwhile, you can visit Max Dana’s Official Website. Many of you already know it but there are some interesting new sections, a Twitter feed and news from both the Sama Gazette and Max Dana’s Blog. If you didn’t visit her website yet, it is the opportunity to check it. And if you already visited it, then check it again, you will ...

The Enough Moment is on sale. Human rights activist John Prendergast and Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle bring us an empowering and hopeful new book, as they reveal the steps being taken by engaged citizens—”Upstanders”—famous and unknown, here and abroad, to combat genocide, rape, and child soldierdom in Africa, and show how you can be a part of the movement. The Enough Moment, by John Prendergast with Don Cheadle, is on sale now, and ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...

Tim Simmons is a photographer from London, UK. He was born in 1955 and lives and works in London and Norfolk. Simmons is a photographic artist we like a lot since we first saw his work during the London Art Fair in January 2010. By adding artificial lighting on his photos taken by night, he accentuates details and city, forest and mountain landscapes inspire many questions about beauty and fragility, about how we perceive an environment we, most of the ...

As we reported in March (following the article posted by Max Dana), then in May, Owen Maseko was arrested on 26 March after participating in a show at the Bulawayo National Art Gallery, which depicted atrocities that took place in the Matabeleland region, known as Gukuruhundi, in western Zimbabwe during the 1980s where thousands of people were killed, mainly by state security agents. Five months later, the Zimbabwean government has officially banned the ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...

The second World Humanitarian Day takes place this year today, 19 August 2010, to honor and celebrate the work of humanitarian workers. The 19 of August has been chosen by the United Nations to commemorate the work of humanitarian workers as it marks the day when 22 employees of the UN, including the UN Special Representative Sergio Vieira de Mello, were killed in a bomb attack in 2003 in Baghdad. About World Humanitarian Day (read more here): This year ...

Everyone we know enjoys watching TV shows. Whether they are American, French or Indian, there are so many different genres and so many different stories, everyone can find its favorite(s). Max Dana has found hers. Burn Notice, Dark Blue, True Blood and Mad Men but also several others she likes to watch. This is Max’s latest blog entry, and we agree, Burn Notice is far better than Leverage! “ I really enjoy watching TV shows. Unfortunately, ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...