Photo: Iran, picnic, 1950s

Recent Posts

• An “empathogen” — that’s what ecstasy is
• Photo: Gary Winograd’s New York
• Leaving Facebook: next time consult with me.
• Depressing…
• Madhuri Dixit: earthly Woman, female Deity
• A must-read
• “…shatter them like potter’s vessels.”
• Photo: hamam, Red Fort, Delhi
• Boycott Turkish tourism?
• News from Kurdistan.net
• The Guardian’s Greek Poverty Tour
• Happy New Year to EVERY-one
• Aleksandr Solzhenytsin
• What happened to Catalonia?
• Cartoon: New Yorker
• “…inside newly arrived communities in western Europe…” from the Guardian
• The Guardian on the Balkans
• whoah — Reza hasn’t said something of much use in the recent past…
• Alex Shams, Oum Kalthoum and the “evil eye”
• A break from the cesspool: Rana Farhan & the Mevlânâ
• Photo: Jehangir’s tomb, Lahore… wow.
• Read these…all of us (then summarize for me ’cause I’m feeling stupid)
• Maria Popova on everything, as usual
• More desecration of Istanbul
• “…the wide elbow room of Rome and the Byzantine Empire!’”
• …a Greek argument
• Athens: Macedonia belongs to its bears
• Photo: one of the NYRB’s more attractive front pages
• Photo: Athens, Moon
• “…a place for Jewish values to come to life…”
• On the Day of the Waters, Indian twenty-somethings importuning each other
• India: What is this ‘Southern Pride’ or Dravido-chauvinism about all of a sudden? Or did I miss something?
• Mexicans, Achilles, anger and Michael Phelps
• That darned colonialism
• Photo: Erechtheion
• ‘Joy soaked in tears’ —
• “The one day in the USSR when hope trampled reason.”
• “We defend the freedom to importune…” Catherine Deneuve rocks and — as always — so do the French
• Image from William Dalrymple: the children of Mirza Nill Sahib Bahadur
• Photo: don’t know who or where…
• Memory
• Photo: Iran, picnic, 1950s
• Boğaziçi in Erdoğan’s crosshairs
• Tarkan: “Yolla” — this song HAS to have a political not-so-subtext, değil mi?
• Merry Christmas to all my friends
• I loved no-Erdoğan Turkey
• Another one for the Byzantine Ambassador: Why do Catholics care?
• One more killer — maybe THE one — from Byzantine Ambassador
• Worst case scenario for one-state?
• “In the East, Christianity was still a conversation between the great metropolises & not a court of one.”