Multimedia: Photo Essays

Turkey: Urban Renewal Push Raises Rights Issue

March 4, 2011 - 12:32pm

by: Alexander Christie-Miller and Jonathan Lewis

Turkey

Water and electricity have been cut off, and the top three stories of her four-story home have already been demolished. But with nowhere else to go, Fatma Yildiz is trying to retain a semblance of...
Georgia: Svaneti Gold Prospectors Seek the Monster Nugget

March 3, 2011 - 12:04pm

by: Temo Bardzimashvili

Georgia

His nickname is Mackenna – after the Gregory Peck character, Sheriff Mackenna, who, in the 1969 film “Mackenna’s Gold,” dedicated his life to pursuing a hopeless dream of striking it rich. The...
Georgia: Tbilisi Wants to Become a Ski Destination

February 25, 2011 - 10:25am

by: Molly Corso

Georgia

President Mikheil Saakashvili wants to turn Georgia into a skier’s paradise. For a leader who has presided over a cabinet meeting in neon green ski pants, the idea seems natural enough. But the...
Georgia: Love Your Country, Love Your Chokha

February 20, 2011 - 3:26pm

by: Paul Rimple, Justyna Mielnikiewicz

Georgia

France may be known for its berets, and Spain for its mantillas, but few national costumes are linked to as strong a sense of national pride as Georgia’s chokhas.
Turkmenistan's Capital Gleams with New Buildings and Gobbles Up the Old

February 18, 2011 - 4:24am

by: David Trilling

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan's flashy capital is sprawling. Who is building it? And who is buying? The answers aren't clear. But city planners must be burning through cash as fast as the wells can pump the gas...
Georgia: Evicted IDPs Enduring Winter without Heat, Water or Power

January 31, 2011 - 10:36am

by: Molly Corso

Georgia

Missing windowpanes, no water, no electricity and no gas. That was the scene that greeted one family of Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia after they were evicted from a make-shift shelter in...
Turkey: Tradition of Camel Wrestling Making a Comeback

January 27, 2011 - 5:30pm

by: Alexander Christie-Miller

Turkey

In its 2,400-year history, the tradition of camel wrestling in Turkey has seen many winners and losers. But owner Ismail Egilmez had reason this year to celebrate a totally new kind of triumph....
Afghanistan: IDPs Stranded at the “Slaughterhouse”

January 27, 2011 - 5:30am

by: Iason Athanasiadis

Afghanistan

A third of a million desperate people once lived in Maslakh, a camp of wind-blown mud brick houses erected upon a brittle lunar landscape in western Afghanistan. Ten years after the US-led...
Skilled Georgian Puri Baker Plies His Craft in Armenia

January 21, 2011 - 6:44am

by: Anahit Hayrapetyan

Armenia

Bakari Bodaveli is a master at making the traditional flat and crispy Georgian bread called shotis puri [pronounced “poo-ree”]. The 34-year-old Georgian baker moved to Armenia nine months ago and...
Turkmenistan: While Officials Frolic, Caspian Gas Mecca Rusts and Groans

January 18, 2011 - 12:00pm

by: David Trilling

Turkmenistan

For a country with the world’s fourth-largest gas reserves, Turkmenistan has a predictably glitzy capital, Ashgabat. And it would stand to reason that the prized Caspian port city an hour’s flight...

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