Trabzon (Trapezounta), “the fairest city of all”, as Patriarch John the VIII of Constantinople called it in the 11th century, was the Greek capital of the East for over two millennia. It has been a […]
The hub of the Islamic world, the largest oil-producing country in the world, homeland of Osama Bin Laden, is balanced precariously between the “modern, Western way of life” and tradition. Over-conservative clerics are asking for […]
“Love hurts three times – when they cut you, when you marry and when you give birth” Old African saying Excision is an ancient custom that survives to this day. An excruciating operation on the […]
The act or practice of feeding on dead bodies (necrophagia) is beyond comprehension in the western world. But in other cultures ritual cannibalism is a fact. This astonishing documentary filmed in India provides a very […]
The “revival of the Taliban” is a fact. And Pakistan is the new centre of developments in Central Asia, for it is from its grounds that the new waves of fighters with the black turbans, […]