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The “Evil Eye” and Keeping Up with the Joneses in Azerbaijan

There’s more to these blue glass trinkets than meets the eye. Image: Sener Dagasan/Shutterstock...

Azerbaijan Works to Revive Recaptured Karabakh Resort of Shusha

Image: Orkhan Azim SHUSHA, Azerbaijan (Reuters) - The area around Shusha was once called the "Swi...

Starting a Virtual Book Club to Learn Her Own Language: an Interview with Nahid Jafari

Not everyone has to opportunity to learn the grammar of the language they speak at home. In Iran, Fa...

Sayat Nova - the 18th Century Caucasian Troubadour-poet Who Continues to Inspire

Image: Wikipedia For some critics, Sergei Parajanov’s 1968-9 movie, The Colour of Pomegranates,...

Bagh-e Sanghi – The Stone Garden

Image: Mark Elliott Made in 1976, the Iranian film Bāgh-e sangi tells the off-beat tale of a deaf...

Fighting to Save the Art of Borchalo Carpet Weaving in Georgia

Photo: Tata Shoshiashvili/OC Media. (OC Media) The Kajarova sisters, 68-year-old Fatma and 72-yea...

Kazakh TikTokers Conquer the World, Incite Suspicion at Home

Image: theyolohouse (Eurasianet) If someone last year had told the seven Almaty teenagers behind...

History of the Caucasus: At the Crossroads of Empires – Book Review

Christoph Baumer’s History of the Caucasus. The first volume takes the reader from pre-history to...

Towerhouses of the Caucasus

Image: Kotenko Oleksandr/Shutterstock Perhaps the most archetypal “Caucasian” building is the s...

Azerbaijani Cinema in Iran

Making movies has changed a lot over the years, and Azerbaijani Turks in Iran have been around for a...

Contemporary Architecture in the Caspian Region: Grozny

Grozny at night. Image: Oleg Chudnikov/Shutterstock It’s a wildcard, but Grozny creeps into o...

Contemporary Architecture in the Caspian Region: Ashgabat

Image: Matyas Rehak/Shutterstock For the fourth of our five-part series on the Caspian Region...
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