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We print below Chapter 10 from prize-winning novel Man of the Mountains  with the kind

  

In the picturesque town of Qabala there is a riverside restaurant with an unusual name –

From New Zealand and Brazil, Sudan, South Korea and points in between, they converged on Baku for th

TEAS Press is a new venture from The European Azerbaijan Society, designed to increase and improve

Baku is getting into gear for the largest international event it has ever hosted – the

Relict trees are survivors of the vast forests that 20 million years ago covered much of Eurasia.

by Ilham Shaban On 20 September, Azerbaijan celebrated the 20th anniversary of the signing of the

The signing of the Contract of the Century on 20 September 1994 was a defining moment in the

The presidents of the five countries that surround the Caspian Sea gathered in the Russian port

The straight back and distinguished greying locks, with just a hint of a quiff, are a reassuring

Fakhraddin Manafov is one of Azerbaijan’s most recognisable actors, the star of dozens of film

With a phenomenal 190 novels to his name, he is published in 29 languages around the world. As of

You never came to Baku in the 50s?

Azerbaijan is the birthplace of some outstanding scholars and scientists, such as Nobel Prize winnin

These are two fantastic photos for the future of the Caucasus leopard in Azerbaijan, as they show a

I’m staring wistfully at reflections in an ultra-polished, stainless steel coffeepot. It sits

Twenty years ago Azerbaijan signed the ‘Contract of the Century’ with a consortium of

After I started my assignment in Baku, the names of Gosławski, Skórewicz, Płoszko and other

What would have been the 45th birthday of Azerbaijani National Hero Albert Agarunov (Aqarunov) was

This year, 2014, marks the 69th anniversary of the victory over Nazism. Despite the years that

Four out of five Soviet aircraft, tanks and trucks used in World War II ran on fuel produced in

Tom de Waal is one of the best-known British commentators on the Caucasus and entire former

Performing hippos, dancing camels, precarious feats on the high wire are just some of the Azerbaijan

Jo Burge enjoys a taste of Azerbaijani life at a Community Based Tourism homestay. The Qafarov

The maxim ‘the closer you look the more you find’ is highly appropriate for Azerbaijan,

Look through back issues of Visions and the name Dmitry Yablonsky crops up more than once. So what i

Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh was criticised by many for saturating his paintings with vivid, even

Poet ruler Shah Ismail Khatai, Bard Dada Gorgud, a shape-shifting ogre and Fatima of the Forty Lover

We publish below two extracts from The Incomplete Manuscript with the kind permission of the author

Its intriguingly relaxed mix of ethnicities and faiths has drawn many academics and clerics to

The UK and Azerbaijan have long enjoyed top-level relations, especially in the energy sector. The

The opening of the first ASAN Service Centre just over a year ago marked a sea change in the

Businesswoman Gulnara Khanbabayeva tells Visions of some unlikely links between Azerbaijan and Spain

A myriad of companies, large and small, sprung up during Baku’s first oil boom in the 19th

The Novruz holiday, which celebrates the start of spring, may be the best known of Azerbaijan’

Azerbaijanis have a very sweet-tooth and rarely need a reason for indulging their passion, but the

Azerbaijan has long since punched above its weight in chess. With a population of nine million, it

A legend tells of grapes growing in a forest that were pecked at by birds. A poor man uprooted the

At 73 years of age Gulagha Tariverdiyev feels more like 50. He is kept young by daily chores in his

Azerbaijan University of Languages (AUL) is one of the country’s leading institutions in the

Twenty three years ago, carnations used to be favourite flowers in every Azerbaijani

Azerbaijan has dozens of stories of true love as good as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. For

On 15 November 2013, we at Visions of Azerbaijan lost a colleague and very dear friend, when Fiona

The coins that we take for granted in our pockets and purses will be valuable source material for