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Aaron’s Last Post from Azerbaijan: A Service ‘Completed’ 11 Nov 2011 | 09:07 pm
“Thank you for your service.” This is my last post from Azerbaijan for quite a while. As of today, I’m no longer a Peace Corps Volunteer. Over the past month or so, I’ve been wrapping things up in Lə...
Run Afoul of the Weather in Lənkəran 9 Nov 2011 | 02:27 am
After giving it a second go, Ryan has finally made it to Azerbaijan. Last time, it went down that the Azerbaijani government changed the visa rules without telling anyone and Ryan had to turn around m...
Run Afoul of the Weather in Lənkəran 8 Nov 2011 | 09:27 pm
After giving it a second go, Ryan has finally made it to Azerbaijan. Last time, it went down that the Azerbaijani government changed the visa rules without telling anyone and Ryan had to turn around m...
In Memory of Steve Hollier 3 Nov 2011 | 09:10 pm
It has been just over a week since my friend, Steve Hollier, passed away. Eli and I had been in a car on our way up from Lənkəran to Baku, looking forward to meeting up with Steve and his partner, San...
A Sunday Poem 31 Oct 2011 | 02:44 am
It’s been a rough week, so the posts this week have been few. We’ll start the new week with a poem from Bakhtiyar Vahabzade (Bəxtiyər Vahabzadə), called Speed (Sürət): Speed Time was, we would sit ...
Lankaran and Monterey: What does it mean to be a ‘sister city’? 25 Oct 2011 | 05:44 am
I don’t really understand what it means to be a Sister City, but that’s apparently what Lənkəran and Monterey, California are now. Wikipedia tells me that sister cities form agreements “in geographica...
Azerbaijan Abroad, Playing the Diplomatic Game 24 Oct 2011 | 01:11 am
This past weekend, The Guardian‘s Comment is Free article by Mary Fitzgerald had some pointed words about Azerbaijan and its free speech record. She attended a reception in Westminster City Hall held ...
A Sunday Poem 23 Oct 2011 | 05:48 pm
This week’s poem is by Vagif Samadoghlu (Vaqif Səmədoğlu), called That Strange and Soft Tune (Sənin səhərdən axşama kimi oxuduğun). Enjoy: That Strange and Soft Tune That strange and soft tune that...
Photojournalism: The Lives of the Pipeline 23 Oct 2011 | 01:48 am
After two years of living here in Azerbaijan, I still enjoy the photo essays and documenting of Azerbaijani lives as they are affected by various contexts, such as a massive oil pipeline. There are...
Where Does Azerbaijan Belong? 19 Oct 2011 | 05:54 pm
The CRRC has a new report out detailing gender attitude differences in the Caucasus and comparing those attitudes to the wider set of data from the Pew Center’s Global Attitudes Project. What you get ...
