The Georgian-Russian conflict lasted for five days in August, 2008. But along the ceasefire line today both sides remain on a war-footing. An abundance of checkpoints, defensive positions, and...
The Kintsvisi monastery is a place where the past manages to keep the present at bay. The monks who reside at this sanctuary, situated in the heavily wooded mountains of Georgia’s Shida Kartli...
Kabul’s ubiquitous fruit stands and pharmacies begin to thin out around the Charahee Qambar neighborhood, situated a few miles west of the capital’s center and home to the city’s largest...
For many years, Sikhs were a prominent part of Kabul’s commercial scene, occupying prominent positions as traders, entrepreneurs, and, later, currency exchange specialists. But in today’s...
Once the pampered pets of regional strongman Aslan Abashidze, the ostriches had their fate rewritten in May 2004 when Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili ousted Abashidze from power in the...
Once known as a nobleman’s sport, falconry in today’s Georgia lives on mostly among the poor. In Achara, also known as Ajara, it is a hobby that can trace its origin back some 2,000 years. Still,...
Yerevan’s $35 million, 1,100-square-meter Cafesjian Center for the Arts officially opened its doors on Nov. 7, 2009. The museum is part of a seven-year project by Armenian-American Gerard L.
With fall fast approaching, the Mongol and Kazakh herders who inhabit this land of craggy peaks, wide valleys and silver blue lakes in the Altay Mountains are on the move, heading for lower...
The cotton sector in Tajikistan appears caught in a downward spiral, and the child-labor issue is but one of many problem areas. In the country's southern districts abutting the Afghan border,...
Through centuries of conflict, fortunetellers have been a steady source of consolation for Afghans. Some date their practice to the time of Alexander the Great, whose army sought out soothsayers...