The Gates of Damascus

Someone else’s things are in the house: school notebooks that don’t belong to Asma, a cardboard box of cheap cookies Hala would never buy, a small bottle of Syrian perfume. My cupboard is full of junk, and there’s an unfamiliar dress hanging on the line. Hala comes in around noon, in a hurry, plastic bags [...]

Lieve Joris and the Congo of The Rebels’ Hour

Lieve Joris and the Congo of The Rebels’ Hour (from FORA.tv) Read chapter 5 of The Gates of Damascus. To order the book, please contact Rozenberg Publishers. more at www.lievejoris.nl

The Return of the Underground Retail Cannabis Market?

Attitudes of Dutch coffeeshop owners and cannabis users to the proposed ‘cannabis ID’ and the consequences they expect. ABSTRACT The sale of cannabis to persons aged 18 or older is permitted in the Netherlands under certain conditions in commercial establishments called coffeeshops. The present Dutch government has proposed that access to coffeeshops be restricted to [...]

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