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Romania-themed Sunday service advert, Porta Palazzo. Torino, November.
African refugee demonstration, Piazza Castello. Torino, October.
Archived entries for Italy
World of Kebab (Reference Version)
Since we first launched Souciant in March, I’ve used my near-weekly contributions to generate copy for my new book. On a good month, I’ll crank out four thousand words of final draft copy, or 1K a week. It’s been a good deadline-driven framework. Though I can write that much in a day, I wouldn’t bank on it being the best material. Given a week, it’s a totally different story.
Hence today’s piece, World of Kebab. Named after a Turkish fast food delivery van I used to run into in Stuttgart, the article traffics in one of my favorite themes, food’s centrality to cultural identity. As I pushed the topic in my last book, Israel vs. Utopia, food is a reasonable, if not desirable alternative to religion. Its sensuality is just about the most secular thing I can think of.
Gig Flyer City
It won’t win any awards for complexity. But it’s a great gig advert. Borgo Po, Torino. August, 2011.
Italy in Translation
The late activist, immortalized on a demonstration flyer. Also a subject of my first book, Jerusalem Calling (2001), currently being translated into German. Neukölln, September.
Food to Go
North African deli truck. Porta Palazzo, Torino.
A döner truck. Umlauts included. Near Regina Margherita, Torino.
Gig Flyer
Stéphane Hessel, the subject of a piece I wrote for The Forward last January, makes an appearance in Thursday’s edition of Souciant. Audio included.
Flyer for a Hessel event photographed in a Borgo Po park. Torino, 08/11.
Nobody Loves Him
Where’s the Party? An excerpt from the Italy chapter of my book-in-progress, Everywhere But There, in Tuesday’s Souciant.