Braam Hanekom, whose English name is Abram Hanekom, is a Zimbabwean-born South African refugee rights activist. He is named after Bram Fischer and is the son of Kallie Hanekom and Professor Jennifer Jelsma. He was born on 5 February 1984, in Harare, into a family with strong links to the African National Congress during the time of apartheid in South Africa. His uncle Derek Hanekom and aunt Trish Hanekom spent three years in jail for their involvement in the African National Congress during his childhood. He left Zimbabwe after leaving school to assist the Movement for Democratic Change in their 2002 presidential campaign. He then moved to Cape Town, South Africa where his family lives. His childhood in Zimbabwe strongly influenced his views on refugees and he is fluent in Shona. He is a founding member and the current director of PASSOP. He is an activist in the fight for the rights of immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees. He writes a weekly column for a newspaper the zimbabwean. During the end of 2007 and beginning of 2008 he was arrested four times for different protest actions; in three of the four arrests charges were withdrawn by the state. He is settled with the South African Police Service for an undisclosed amount after suing them for unlawful arrest and failure to comply with procedures. During the same period he was instrumental in exposing the crisis at refugee centres in South Africa. He remains an active member of the ANC, but a strong critic of government shortcomings. He has been a victim of xenophobia. He was awarded the 2008 Inyathelo award for youth in philanthropy. In 2009 he was elected onto Cape Town TV's Board; he currently serves on the board with civil society representatives from COSATU, SWEAT and Workers World among others. In 2011 he was chosen by the mail and guardian as one of its 200 young South Africans.
A Play Entitled Sehnsucht ( film 2011), is a 2011 Lebanese film by the Lebanese writer-director Badran Roy Badran and the Lebanese creative producer Celine Abiad.
A Play Entitled Sehnsucht is a 2011 Lebanese surrealist film produced by Celine Abiad's Beiroots Productions.
A feature film written and directed by Badran Roy Badran, over a period of 5 years, to reflect the incurable self destructive nostalgic desire that Lebanon suffers from. After studying closely the astronomer Bernard Zeidan(1945-2008) who, traumatized by the Lebanese civil war(1975-1989), was locked inside a mental hospital in Lebanon, Badran and his producer Celine Abiad, ended up with a mesmeric multilingual 35mm(Lebanese,German,English) that is also known as the first experimental feature film in the Mediterranean Cinema.
Plot
A Play Entitled Sehnsucht reveals the thirst of Bernard Zeidan the talented Lebanese astronomer who claimed that he had witnessed a planet’s explosion in the year 1975 (beginning of the Lebanese civil war). He dedicated his youth to write about that explosion in details, and after fourteen years of hard work, he published his book in the year 1989 (ending of the Lebanese civil war).
Bernard entitled his book with a German word that describes a universal obsessive feeling that can’t be translated in any other language. The title of his book is: Sehnsucht (a self destructive force caused by an intense desire for a certain ideal moment, felt in the past, a certain ideal moment that will never exist again).
Bernard’s book, Sehnsucht, faced a brutal failure because a planet cannot explode! Bernard found himself stuck in his obsession, which led him to insanity.
Doctor Ulrich, a young German hypnotist, who happened to fall on Bernard’s book, is curious to know why a Lebanese astronomer would use such a controversial German word Sehnsucht as a title for his book.
Doctor Ulrich sets forth to the asylum in Lebanon on may 19, 1998 (post Lebanese civil war period) to analyse the 80 year old mad astronomer Bernard Zeidan through hypnotherapy.
The film happens in a real world reproduced inside an unreal one: the subconscious, the hypnotic play, or the stage where the tale of Bernard is narrated by Ulrich, the German hypnotist, and is performed by four characters symbolising Bernard’s psyche itself: The introvert, the clown, the philosopher, and the intellectual.
A Play Entitled Sehnsucht isn’t only a theater hypnotherapeutic technique used by doctor Ulrich who was interested to explore Bernard’s subconscious and solve the Sehnsucht mystery, but it’s more of an experience reflecting a deep intimacy that arises in every one of us when confronting Destiny...when confronting that lost forever feeling of desiring passionately and impatiently, accompanied by the melancholic pain of that crucial moment decision each one of us took in the past.
Cast
-Christian Ghazy: as Bernard Zeidan the mental astronomer who wrote a book during the Lebanese civil war, analysing and rationalizing a 20 seconds vision he had about a planet's explosion. The title of his book is the untranslatable German word: Sehnsucht. After the brutal failure of his book, Bernard was locked in a Lebanese asylum until his death.
-Gianni Fau: as Doctor Ulrich the German hypnotist who found a book entitled Sehnsucht written by a Lebanese astronomer! He decides to come to Lebanon and meet the writer of the book, the astronomer Bernard Zeidan who is locked in a Lebanese asylum.
Ulrich will try to cure Bernard using the "Theater Hypnotherapeutic Technique". Through hypnosis, Dr. Ulrich will become the narrator of a play performed inside the subconscious of Bernard Zeidan.
-Bernard's Psyche-
-Vartan Meguerditchian: The Philosopher character who asks all the questions that can't be answered.
-Adoni Maalouf: The Clown character.
-Cyril Bassil: The Introvert character.
-Ghady Yaghi: The intellectual character.
Production history
Bernard Zeidan (1945-2008),is a Lebanese astronomer who wrote a book entitled: Sehnsucht published in a limited edition in April,1994, in Beirut. Bernard claimed to have witnessed a planet's explosion in 1975 in Lebanon, and he dedicated all his life to write, analyse, and rationalize his vision. After the publication of his book, Bernard was locked in a mental assylum in Lebanon, and his book was classified as: illogical and irrelevant, since a planet cannot explode by itself.
Bernard would have died unknown in the Lebanese mental hospital if he hadn't met, in March 2006, Badran Roy Badran a 22 year old writer director and Celine Abiad a 20 year old producer, who were studying the post effect of the Lebanese civil war(1975-1989) and its different types of traumas. Badran Roy Badran met Bernard and studied him closely with the help of his doctors...shortly, after Bernard's death, Celine Abiad and Badran decided to dedicate their first feature film: A Play Entitled Sehnsucht, a five year journey to Bernard Zeidan the Lebanese astronomer who wrote a book entitled: Sehnsucht.
-Music producer/Arranger: Sami Gabriel
-Sound: Rasmus Winther Jensen
-Editor: Zeina Nehme
-Cinematographer: Ziad Chahoud
-Visual Effects: Sebastien Leclercq
-Colorist: Charbel Mouawad
-Bashar Abu Saifan: Collaborator Producer
In participation with The Gate (Lebanon) http://www.the-gate.tv/
International Media Support (Denmark) http://www.i-m-s.dk/
Under the high patronage of the Lebanese Ministry of Culture http://www.culture.gov.lb/
A Play Entitled Sehnsucht is a 2011 Lebanese surrealist film produced by Celine Abiad's Beiroots Productions.
A feature film written and directed by Badran Roy Badran, over a period of 5 years, to reflect the incurable self destructive nostalgic desire that Lebanon suffers from. After studying closely the astronomer Bernard Zeidan(1945-2008) who, traumatized by the Lebanese civil war(1975-1989), was locked inside a mental hospital in Lebanon, Badran and his producer Celine Abiad, ended up with a mesmeric multilingual 35mm(Lebanese,German,English) that is also known as the first experimental feature film in the Mediterranean Cinema.
Plot
A Play Entitled Sehnsucht reveals the thirst of Bernard Zeidan the talented Lebanese astronomer who claimed that he had witnessed a planet’s explosion in the year 1975 (beginning of the Lebanese civil war). He dedicated his youth to write about that explosion in details, and after fourteen years of hard work, he published his book in the year 1989 (ending of the Lebanese civil war).
Bernard entitled his book with a German word that describes a universal obsessive feeling that can’t be translated in any other language. The title of his book is: Sehnsucht (a self destructive force caused by an intense desire for a certain ideal moment, felt in the past, a certain ideal moment that will never exist again).
Bernard’s book, Sehnsucht, faced a brutal failure because a planet cannot explode! Bernard found himself stuck in his obsession, which led him to insanity.
Doctor Ulrich, a young German hypnotist, who happened to fall on Bernard’s book, is curious to know why a Lebanese astronomer would use such a controversial German word Sehnsucht as a title for his book.
Doctor Ulrich sets forth to the asylum in Lebanon on may 19, 1998 (post Lebanese civil war period) to analyse the 80 year old mad astronomer Bernard Zeidan through hypnotherapy.
The film happens in a real world reproduced inside an unreal one: the subconscious, the hypnotic play, or the stage where the tale of Bernard is narrated by Ulrich, the German hypnotist, and is performed by four characters symbolising Bernard’s psyche itself: The introvert, the clown, the philosopher, and the intellectual.
A Play Entitled Sehnsucht isn’t only a theater hypnotherapeutic technique used by doctor Ulrich who was interested to explore Bernard’s subconscious and solve the Sehnsucht mystery, but it’s more of an experience reflecting a deep intimacy that arises in every one of us when confronting Destiny...when confronting that lost forever feeling of desiring passionately and impatiently, accompanied by the melancholic pain of that crucial moment decision each one of us took in the past.
Cast
-Christian Ghazy: as Bernard Zeidan the mental astronomer who wrote a book during the Lebanese civil war, analysing and rationalizing a 20 seconds vision he had about a planet's explosion. The title of his book is the untranslatable German word: Sehnsucht. After the brutal failure of his book, Bernard was locked in a Lebanese asylum until his death.
-Gianni Fau: as Doctor Ulrich the German hypnotist who found a book entitled Sehnsucht written by a Lebanese astronomer! He decides to come to Lebanon and meet the writer of the book, the astronomer Bernard Zeidan who is locked in a Lebanese asylum.
Ulrich will try to cure Bernard using the "Theater Hypnotherapeutic Technique". Through hypnosis, Dr. Ulrich will become the narrator of a play performed inside the subconscious of Bernard Zeidan.
-Bernard's Psyche-
-Vartan Meguerditchian: The Philosopher character who asks all the questions that can't be answered.
-Adoni Maalouf: The Clown character.
-Cyril Bassil: The Introvert character.
-Ghady Yaghi: The intellectual character.
Production history
Bernard Zeidan (1945-2008),is a Lebanese astronomer who wrote a book entitled: Sehnsucht published in a limited edition in April,1994, in Beirut. Bernard claimed to have witnessed a planet's explosion in 1975 in Lebanon, and he dedicated all his life to write, analyse, and rationalize his vision. After the publication of his book, Bernard was locked in a mental assylum in Lebanon, and his book was classified as: illogical and irrelevant, since a planet cannot explode by itself.
Bernard would have died unknown in the Lebanese mental hospital if he hadn't met, in March 2006, Badran Roy Badran a 22 year old writer director and Celine Abiad a 20 year old producer, who were studying the post effect of the Lebanese civil war(1975-1989) and its different types of traumas. Badran Roy Badran met Bernard and studied him closely with the help of his doctors...shortly, after Bernard's death, Celine Abiad and Badran decided to dedicate their first feature film: A Play Entitled Sehnsucht, a five year journey to Bernard Zeidan the Lebanese astronomer who wrote a book entitled: Sehnsucht.
-Music producer/Arranger: Sami Gabriel
-Sound: Rasmus Winther Jensen
-Editor: Zeina Nehme
-Cinematographer: Ziad Chahoud
-Visual Effects: Sebastien Leclercq
-Colorist: Charbel Mouawad
-Bashar Abu Saifan: Collaborator Producer
In participation with The Gate (Lebanon) http://www.the-gate.tv/
International Media Support (Denmark) http://www.i-m-s.dk/
Under the high patronage of the Lebanese Ministry of Culture http://www.culture.gov.lb/
In the area of the Greater Lisbon:
* Lisbon - Amoreiras Shopping Center (275 stores); Centro Colombo (the biggest shopping mall of Iberian Peninsula with 420+ stores); Centro Vasco da Gama (164 stores); Olivais Shopping; El Corte Inglés; Chiado; Atrium; Monumental
* Amadora - Dolce Vita Tejo
* Alenquer - Campera Outlet Shopping
* Almada - Almada Forum
* Montijo - Forum Montijo
* Cascais/Alcabideche - Cascais Shopping
* Oeiras - Oeiras Parque
* Odivelas - Odivelas Shopping
* Loures - Loures Shopping
* Alcochete - Freeport
* Torres Vedras - Arena Shopping
In the area of the Greater Porto:
* Porto - Via Catarina (downtown), Porto Plaza (downtown) Cidade do Porto (in Boavista), Brasília (in Boavista), Dolce Vita (in Antas)
just off the city (suburbs):
* North (Senhora da Hora) - Circunvalação street: Norte Shopping 287 stores , (Leça da Palmeira) - Mar Shopping, Mindelo - The Style Outlet;
* East (Rio Tinto) - Circunvalação street: Parque Nascente
* South (Vila Nova de Gaia) - Arrábida Shopping
* South (Vila Nova de Gaia) - Gaia Shopping
* Maia: Maiashopping, Vivaci Maia, Maia Jardim (hypermarket and few stores only)
* Matosinhos: Marshopping
In the region of Madeira:
* Camacha - Camacha Shopping
* Funchal - Forum Madeira (86 stores), Madeira Shopping (83 stores)
In the region of Minho:
* Braga - Centro Comercial Galécia; Avenida Braga Shopping; Gold Centre; Centro Comercial Granginhos; Braga Retail Park; Braga Parque; Braga Shopping; Minho Center; E.LECLERC; Liberty Street Fashion; Dolce Vita Braga
* Guimarães - Guimarães Shopping
* Barcelos - Centro Comercial Castro; Centro Comercial Terco; Centro Comercial Senhor da Cruz; E.LECLERC; Fórum de Vizela
Via Nova shopping
* Viana do Castelo - Estação Viana Shopping (Viana do Castelo's railways station mall)
In the region of Centro
* Caldas da Rainha - Vivaci
* Coimbra - Dolce Vita Coimbra; Forum Coimbra
* Figueira da Foz - FozPlaza
* Aveiro - Forum Aveiro
* Viseu - Palacio do Gelo
In the region of Norte:
* Vila Real - Dolce Vita
* São João da Madeira - 8ª Avenida Centro Comercial
* Lisbon - Amoreiras Shopping Center (275 stores); Centro Colombo (the biggest shopping mall of Iberian Peninsula with 420+ stores); Centro Vasco da Gama (164 stores); Olivais Shopping; El Corte Inglés; Chiado; Atrium; Monumental
* Amadora - Dolce Vita Tejo
* Alenquer - Campera Outlet Shopping
* Almada - Almada Forum
* Montijo - Forum Montijo
* Cascais/Alcabideche - Cascais Shopping
* Oeiras - Oeiras Parque
* Odivelas - Odivelas Shopping
* Loures - Loures Shopping
* Alcochete - Freeport
* Torres Vedras - Arena Shopping
In the area of the Greater Porto:
* Porto - Via Catarina (downtown), Porto Plaza (downtown) Cidade do Porto (in Boavista), Brasília (in Boavista), Dolce Vita (in Antas)
just off the city (suburbs):
* North (Senhora da Hora) - Circunvalação street: Norte Shopping 287 stores , (Leça da Palmeira) - Mar Shopping, Mindelo - The Style Outlet;
* East (Rio Tinto) - Circunvalação street: Parque Nascente
* South (Vila Nova de Gaia) - Arrábida Shopping
* South (Vila Nova de Gaia) - Gaia Shopping
* Maia: Maiashopping, Vivaci Maia, Maia Jardim (hypermarket and few stores only)
* Matosinhos: Marshopping
In the region of Madeira:
* Camacha - Camacha Shopping
* Funchal - Forum Madeira (86 stores), Madeira Shopping (83 stores)
In the region of Minho:
* Braga - Centro Comercial Galécia; Avenida Braga Shopping; Gold Centre; Centro Comercial Granginhos; Braga Retail Park; Braga Parque; Braga Shopping; Minho Center; E.LECLERC; Liberty Street Fashion; Dolce Vita Braga
* Guimarães - Guimarães Shopping
* Barcelos - Centro Comercial Castro; Centro Comercial Terco; Centro Comercial Senhor da Cruz; E.LECLERC; Fórum de Vizela
Via Nova shopping
* Viana do Castelo - Estação Viana Shopping (Viana do Castelo's railways station mall)
In the region of Centro
* Caldas da Rainha - Vivaci
* Coimbra - Dolce Vita Coimbra; Forum Coimbra
* Figueira da Foz - FozPlaza
* Aveiro - Forum Aveiro
* Viseu - Palacio do Gelo
In the region of Norte:
* Vila Real - Dolce Vita
* São João da Madeira - 8ª Avenida Centro Comercial
BAUMANN SKIN TYPE CLASSIFICATION
In 2006, dermatologist Leslie Baumann, MD introduced the BSTS in the book The Skin Type Solution (Bantam 2006). This approach to classifying skin is based on assessing the skin according to four major parameters: dry vs. oily (D/O), sensitive vs. resistant (S/R), pigmented vs. non-pigmented (P/N), and wrinkled vs. tight (W/T). One focus of this system, which can be used for patients regardless of age, gender, or ethnicity, is to match the most suitable skin care products or treatments with a patient’s skin type. A patient’s four-letter skin type code is obtained through a 64-item self-administered questionnaire, the Baumann Skin Type Indicator (BSTI), which renders a score corresponding to the patient’s prevailing cutaneous proclivities along the four descriptive spectra. The different permutations derived from the simultaneous consideration of these four parameters yields 16 different skin types. (Table 1.)
SKIN AGING: The Wrinkled (W) to Tight (T) Continuum
This parameter identifies the risk for developing wrinkles, considered a quintessential sign of cutaneous aging. Natural intrinsic aging, which is genetically driven, or cellularly programmed, is inevitable. Extrinsic aging, however, is subject to human volition and results from behavior such as excessive alcohol consumption, smoking, other forms of pollution, poor nutrition, and primarily, solar exposure. Both pathways ultimately lead to visible cutaneous changes, especially wrinkles, as well as lost elasticity, and hyperpigmentation. The primary focus in the BSTS is extrinsic aging, which has been more extensively studied. Specifically, the questionnaire asks about habits pertaining to sun exposure, smoking, and tanning bed use. The BSTI also asks questions about the skin of ancestors to determine the genetic influence on wrinkled skin. People with the “W” skin type may not have wrinkles when they complete the questionnaire, but they are more prone to wrinkle development and will need to begin prevention methods due to this risk. The “W” skin type is more often seen in individuals with lighter skin than those with dark skin.
The primary focus of anti-aging skin care - or skin care for the individual with “W” skin - is preventing wrinkle formation.(22) Indeed, treating skin once wrinkles have developed is much more difficult given that few skin care products can actually penetrate deeply enough into the dermis or the deeper epidermis to reverse most wrinkles, despite the claims associated with the marketing of such products. Topical products are, however, formulated to prevent the degradation or stimulate the production of the three primary skin constituents: collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid (HA). Topical preparations of retinoids, vitamin C, and copper peptides, as well as oral vitamin C have all been shown to promote collagen production.(23-25) Retinoids have also been demonstrated in animal models to foster HA and elastin synthesis,(26, 27) and glucosamine supplementation is believed to enhance HA levels.(28) No artificial means have yet been developed to increase elastin production.
Treatment approaches for wrinkled skin
Because inflammation is known to support the degradation of collagen, elastin, and HA, reducing inflammation is also an important goal of wrinkle prevention. Antioxidants are used in this context to mitigate the cutaneous effects of free radical activity. Some of the more popular antioxidants used in topical skin care products include vitamins C and E as well as coenzyme Q10, and those originating from botanical sources, such as caffeine, coffeeberry, ferulic acid, feverfew, grape seed extract, green tea, idebenone, mushrooms, polypodium leucotomos, pomegranate, pycnogenol, reseveratrol, rosemary, and silymarin. Although the antioxidant properties of these substances are well established in the literature, their efficacy in topical formulations designed to lessen the cutaneous signs of aging is unproven. Therefore, antioxidants represent just one component in the skin care for individuals with high W scores, who, as stated above, benefit from the use of retinoids. Other approaches to diminish or prevent extrinsic skin aging include avoiding/limiting solar exposure (especially from 10 am to 4 pm), using broad-spectrum sunscreen on a daily basis, avoiding cigarette smoke and pollution, as well as eating a diet high in fruits and vegetables.
In 2006, dermatologist Leslie Baumann, MD introduced the BSTS in the book The Skin Type Solution (Bantam 2006). This approach to classifying skin is based on assessing the skin according to four major parameters: dry vs. oily (D/O), sensitive vs. resistant (S/R), pigmented vs. non-pigmented (P/N), and wrinkled vs. tight (W/T). One focus of this system, which can be used for patients regardless of age, gender, or ethnicity, is to match the most suitable skin care products or treatments with a patient’s skin type. A patient’s four-letter skin type code is obtained through a 64-item self-administered questionnaire, the Baumann Skin Type Indicator (BSTI), which renders a score corresponding to the patient’s prevailing cutaneous proclivities along the four descriptive spectra. The different permutations derived from the simultaneous consideration of these four parameters yields 16 different skin types. (Table 1.)
SKIN AGING: The Wrinkled (W) to Tight (T) Continuum
This parameter identifies the risk for developing wrinkles, considered a quintessential sign of cutaneous aging. Natural intrinsic aging, which is genetically driven, or cellularly programmed, is inevitable. Extrinsic aging, however, is subject to human volition and results from behavior such as excessive alcohol consumption, smoking, other forms of pollution, poor nutrition, and primarily, solar exposure. Both pathways ultimately lead to visible cutaneous changes, especially wrinkles, as well as lost elasticity, and hyperpigmentation. The primary focus in the BSTS is extrinsic aging, which has been more extensively studied. Specifically, the questionnaire asks about habits pertaining to sun exposure, smoking, and tanning bed use. The BSTI also asks questions about the skin of ancestors to determine the genetic influence on wrinkled skin. People with the “W” skin type may not have wrinkles when they complete the questionnaire, but they are more prone to wrinkle development and will need to begin prevention methods due to this risk. The “W” skin type is more often seen in individuals with lighter skin than those with dark skin.
The primary focus of anti-aging skin care - or skin care for the individual with “W” skin - is preventing wrinkle formation.(22) Indeed, treating skin once wrinkles have developed is much more difficult given that few skin care products can actually penetrate deeply enough into the dermis or the deeper epidermis to reverse most wrinkles, despite the claims associated with the marketing of such products. Topical products are, however, formulated to prevent the degradation or stimulate the production of the three primary skin constituents: collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid (HA). Topical preparations of retinoids, vitamin C, and copper peptides, as well as oral vitamin C have all been shown to promote collagen production.(23-25) Retinoids have also been demonstrated in animal models to foster HA and elastin synthesis,(26, 27) and glucosamine supplementation is believed to enhance HA levels.(28) No artificial means have yet been developed to increase elastin production.
Treatment approaches for wrinkled skin
Because inflammation is known to support the degradation of collagen, elastin, and HA, reducing inflammation is also an important goal of wrinkle prevention. Antioxidants are used in this context to mitigate the cutaneous effects of free radical activity. Some of the more popular antioxidants used in topical skin care products include vitamins C and E as well as coenzyme Q10, and those originating from botanical sources, such as caffeine, coffeeberry, ferulic acid, feverfew, grape seed extract, green tea, idebenone, mushrooms, polypodium leucotomos, pomegranate, pycnogenol, reseveratrol, rosemary, and silymarin. Although the antioxidant properties of these substances are well established in the literature, their efficacy in topical formulations designed to lessen the cutaneous signs of aging is unproven. Therefore, antioxidants represent just one component in the skin care for individuals with high W scores, who, as stated above, benefit from the use of retinoids. Other approaches to diminish or prevent extrinsic skin aging include avoiding/limiting solar exposure (especially from 10 am to 4 pm), using broad-spectrum sunscreen on a daily basis, avoiding cigarette smoke and pollution, as well as eating a diet high in fruits and vegetables.