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Friday Digest: Qaddafi, Oscars, John Galliano, TED, iPad…

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. ...


‘Bullitt’ director Peter Yates has died

You must all remember the car chase on the streets of San Francisco with Steve McQueen at the wheel of a Mustang in ‘Bullitt‘. Peter Yates, four-time Oscar Nominee, has passed away at age 82 in London on Sunday. The British director started out as an actor before becoming an assistant director. He made his directorial debut with Summer Holiday and then directed Robbery, John and Mary, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Krull, The Dresser and the ...


Friday Digest: Aung San Suu Kyi, Abbas, Kashmir…

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’ beautiful and fragile landscapes

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 ...


Join Raised Voices and Women for Women UK tomorrow!

Raised Voices, a choir of men and women with a fantastic repertoire of political songs will be singing in Central London and Women for Women International UK would love to see you there on Thu 12 August! The choir, which frequently performs at political and cultural events will be there from 6.30 pm, joined by staff from Women for Women International UK. About Raised Voices: Raised Voices is a London-based political choir of women and men. We sing a ...


Pray The Devil Back To Hell on July 29th in London

Women for Women International in association with All Saints Church, Peckham, presents a special screening of Pray The Devil Back To Hell, by Gini Reticker. She is one of the world’s leading filmmakers on women’s issues and she produced Asylum, the 2004 Academy Award-nominated short focusing on the story of a Ghanaian woman who fled female genital mutilation to seek political asylum in the U.S.; and was the producer/director of 1994 Sundance ...


Friday Digest: Sudan, Israel, Torture, FIFA, Genomes…

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 ...


Run for Congo Women in London on July 3!

Run for Congo Women is a grassroots movement benefiting Women for Women International‘s Congo program. Last month we announced the run in San Francisco; this week, the first official Run for Congo Women UK (and only run in Europe) will be taking place at the Regents Park Race on July 3rd 2010.  You can get all the information you need on this page. If you will participate to the race and if you want to share your run experience with us just like ...


Twitter Sunday: Favorites Tweets @stephenfry

Last week, our Twitter Sunday was dedicated to the Save Darfur Coalition (follow the organization @SaveDarfur). Today’s Twitter Sunday is on a lighter note: we chose to share with you our Favorites Tweets @stephenfry. Stephen Fry is a British actor, writer, journalist, comedian, television presenter and film director, and his Twitter bio describes him as British Actor, Writer, Lord of Dance, Prince of Swimwear & Blogger. Stephen Fry is a great ...






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