July - August 2012

- International Inspiration –

For two

Dr Liam Fox, former British Defence Secretary, delivered the keynote speech, Changing Threats to

Six members of the UK’s Azerbaijan All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) flew in for an

SOCAR (State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan) has been increasingly active lately. So

In 1949 a unique oil deposit was discovered under the Caspian Sea. The field was named Oil Rocks

Jeffrey Werbock made his first appearance on Azerbaijani television some twenty-four years ago when

After the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference (18 January 1919 – 21 January 1920) set

Introduction
Mountain Jews call themselves Juhuro (or Juvuro, in their Quba dialect), which means

Thousands of Azerbaijanis left for the front in the first years of the Second World War. There were

Elmira Rasulova presents now the most disarming face to the world; a quiet matriarchal presence in

Environmental sciences have been subject to increased popular focus in recent years but they are not

Once upon a time there was a great lord, who ruled over the Banu Amir.
He was a very kind-hearted

A nation’s cultural values tell you much and attitudes towards those values are no less

Baku and the Absheron peninsula are significant for their historic monuments and defence

Who could imagine the bustling, modern Baku inhabited by the fauna of an African savannah? Sounds

Don’t forget the past; it will be your teacher in the future

There is a strong modern

Land of Fire? It may be that Azerbaijan is having an identity crisis, as it currently appears more

The spread of Islam in Azerbaijan was naturally bound up with the social and economic life of the

There are poets who are great and there are poets who are the greatest of the great. The

As a young boy, Sabir, while playing alone in the yard at his home in Borchali (a region of