Entering India to Search for Siddharta
From the days long before the Portuguese and the British plugged India all unwillingly into the European colonial world,…
Bolder, Elegant Journalism
From the days long before the Portuguese and the British plugged India all unwillingly into the European colonial world,…
Banine, the Azeri-French author who has appeared in a number of these dispatches recently, wrote her memoir entitled Days in…
The south of Azerbaijan touches the Caspian Sea, the Talysh, or Hyrcanian Mountains, and the regional power of Iran.…
In this staple of Baku’s skyline, I saw a bagel bar posting advertisements for pumpkin spice lattes, and a…
According to a tweet from the Finance Minister, Azerbaijan’s non-oil-and-gas sector grew to 9.6% of GDP in 2023. That…
I’m by no means an expert in North Africa, but as my trip in Tunisia reached a half-way point,…
In Tunisia I can only say that I observed a strange society that had seemingly severed most links to…
The degree to which a nation or a people hang onto their cultural characteristics, particularly those they developed in…
On certain occasions, one simply must visit a country which one has no knowledge of. Scrolling through plane tickets…
PC: Andrew Corbley © Regarding the human experience, I always say that it’s best and most productive when you…
Morocco is not all narrow souks and sleepless nights. It is also a country of unique natural beauty. With…
Amid the souks of Morocco, and for all the Islamic world for that matter, one’s normal lie-dar is rarely…
To Morocco. At last I have arrived in the country of Choukri; the country of Bowles; that most famous…
The beauty of southern Spain is comprised of many things which I love dearly. Chief among these delights were…
In Umbria, a place of extraordinary beauty lies, as things so often do in Italy, at the top of…
We all know how much Italy looks like a boot. This August I traveled right across where the laces…
“In his heart I think Frodo is still in love with the Shire. The woods, the fields, distant rivers,”…
Ukraine is one of those countries that, like so many parts of Europe, once belonged to one people, and…
Kyiv! Oh wide and worthy city, forgive me for almost passing you by. As brilliant as any capital city…
As I mentioned before and will quickly reiterate again, the Carpathian Mountains is the third longest mountain chain in…