Bread and Ashes by Tony Anderson
The subtitle of this book is A Walk Through the Mountains of Georgia and that is precisely the red thread throughout the book – the mountains more so than the walk, but I will get to that shortly. This walk was undertaken in the late 1990s, the book first published in 2003. Consequently, the narrative [...]
On the Importance of Contact Between People(s)
This is a fragment of a long and very readable piece on the situation in Iraq. I was struck by this particular quote and how it relates to the Caucasus region. I posted it as a note on my Facebook profile, but I figured I might just as well post it here. “When people aren’t [...]
Ali and Nino by Kurban Said
Reading Ali and Nino was like sinking into a warm bath for me. It reads a bit as a fairytale set in a distant world, but at the same time there is something familiar about the story. I suppose that is because the book is set in my part of the world, mostly in Baku [...]
The good stuff
I have decided to put up a weekly collection of links of blog posts, articles, or other stuff that caught my attention or of interesting blogs I discovered. I keep running into things that I find interesting or want to post about, but I somehow don’t get around to doing that. So I decided to [...]
Nagorno Karabakh: The reality of a non-existing country
A few days ago, Hein Tolboom sent me the text of an essay he wrote for the final report of the project he participated in. As those of you who also read my blog on cilicia.com know, I referred to Hein’s weblog a few times. Hein lived in Stepanakert for three months and worked at [...]
