Notes

Written by: Frank Samol on 2 April 2026

Lost Places: The Dome of the Wind

Back in La Marsa and Tunisia after nearly fifteen years, to take part in a workshop on urban planning in Libya. As the workshop was the cancelled with short notice...

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Written by: on 16 February 2026

A Taste of Syria in Schleswig

The tables outside the main lecture hall at Schloss Gottorf were generously laid. Ali Chahrour — born in Schleswig, owner of Beirut Brunch on Stadtweg — had prepared hummus, tabbouleh,...

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Written by: Frank Samol on 24 July 2023

A toolkit in need of reconstruction

In 2017-2018, the Urban Cultural Heritage in Conflict Regions project, carried out by GIZ with support from the German Federal Foreign Office (AA) under the umbrella of the Archaeological Heritage...

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Written by: Frank Samol on 17 June 2023

Karl-Marx-Allee: A Berlin Street

Cleaning out the basement As it happens, my last efforts to put some order in our basement coincided with the 70th anniversary of the uprising of 17 June 1953. Even...

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Karl-Marx-Allee: A Berlin Street

Written by Frank Samol on 17 June 2023

Cairo - Fighting for Public Space

Written by Frank Samol on 14 June 2023

Baghdad – The Walled City

Written by Frank Samol on 1 June 2023

Does a humble flower like coltsfoot suffer from road noise?

Written by Frank Samol on 19 February 2022

The world in whose hands?

Written by Frank Samol on 6 November 2021

Are high-tech face masks new fashion items?

Written by Frank Samol on 24 August 2021

Sublime Instruments

Written by Frank Samol on 21 August 2021

Rising Heat III

Written by Frank Samol on 16 August 2021

Where are they?

Written by Frank Samol on 8 August 2021