January - February 2012

What an invitation, and in London town so easily accessible. Shall I go?
An advert for this Art

Frederique Lengaigne is now a documentary film-maker, but in 1992 she was working for the Reuters

Almost 7 years have passed since a group of Azerbaijani IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) filed a

Yahad–In Unum is the leading research organization investigating the mass executions of 1.5

Much has been said and written about the hostile attitude of the first and last president of the

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

The audience at a book launch in London on 6 February heard a distinguished panel of speakers

If your image of jazz piano is of deadly earnest, abstract plonking, or some old stager picking out

I remember from my childhood the old men sitting in the chaikhana (tea house) on hot summer days

The great Azerbaijani poet Muhammad Fuzuli (c. 1483 – 1556) is one of the nation’s most

Elmira Abbasly has been many things in her life, but she is at heart a doll maker and her dolls are

From Chinese chisel….
The Chinese were the first people to drill wells, in around 2000 BC,

Found - the dairy of German prisoner of war Willi Desch…. ….When they came here they

The rise and fall…
The fortifications in Bayil Bay, off Baku, are the remains of some of

Russia began a detailed survey of the Caspian Sea coastline in 1854 and was soon producing pilot

Throughout history, translators and interpreters have been vital links in contacts between nations.

There are many traditions in Azerbaijan surrounding the naming of children and some of these

People’s Artist Azim Azimzadeh (1880-1943) left us with a priceless artistic inheritance, but

Muhammadgulu khan, surrounded by his courtiers, was watching open-air theatre performances in the ol