March - April 2014

Olympic qualifying events, an integrated Paralympic discipline, splendid infrastructure and

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

A bright if chilly March morning paints sunshine upon the creamy stone of the Haussmannesque Four

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

Novruz in Pictures

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

The first Baku International Tourism Film Festival (BITFF) opened its doors to film directors from

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

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

As the mercury falls in the thermometer and nature retreats into quiet hibernation, the kitchen is