Guantanmo Kid Posted in: biography, Historical, True story

Mohammad El Gharani left his native Saudi Arabia aged 13 or 14, to study Computer in Pakistan. In the aftermath of the twin towers tragedy he was captured by the Pakistani military and sold to the Americans as an Al-Quaeda operative and sent to the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba, where he undergoes a barbaric series of interrogations and torture. This account of his time there, is as harrowing and upsetting as it…

Coltrane by Paolo Parisi Posted in: Arts & Literature, biography, Historical

‘My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being…’ John Coltrane rose from a hard and impoverished childhood in North Carolina to become one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. From session musician to band member of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, his raw talent and passion for experimentation inaugurated a new movement in music. Positioned at the beating heart of the 50s and…