“The true Vienna lover lives on borrowed memories. With a bitter-sweet pang of nostalgia he remembers things he never knew. The Vienna that is, is as nice a town as there ever was. But the Vienna that never was is the grandest city ever.”
— Orson Welles, Vienna (1968)
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Tags: Ara Guler, Constantinople, Istanbul, Orson Welles, Vienna
-- Murtaza Muhammad Hussein (quoted above) is a journalist I respect immensely whose work focuses on national security, foreign policy, and human rights. His work has previously been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, and Al Jazeera English.
(See more of M.M. Hussein @theintercept)
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FROM BOSNIA TO BENGAL -- The purpose of this blog
I'm Nicholas Bakos, a.k.a. "NikoBako." I'm Greek (Roman really, but like five people today understand what I'm talking about when I say that, so I use "Greek" for shorthand). I'm from New York. I live all over the place these days. The rest should become obvious from the blog.
See "JADDE: THE MISSION AND STARTING OFF, the blog's first entry below, and JADDE: THE NAME OF THIS BLOG for my general agenda:
"What I hope this blog accomplishes is to create even the tiniest amount of common consciousness among readers from the parts of the world in question."
Please contact me with comments, questions, complaints or -- please -- corrections at: nikobakos@gmail.com
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