He is committed to documenting the treasures and beauty of his country. This photo series, called “Madia ya bwala”, showcasing the indigenous plants and food from the Congo. The work…

but always a bit nerve racking to sleep in the lower bunkbed, below a heavy man 😉. but hooks were sturdy, upper bed did not collapse and i arrived in…

“Despite decades of war, ancient pattern techniques that can take months or years to complete are still passed from mother to daughter. Testimony from the makers of these carpets is…

i love the Qutabs! Qutab is an Azerbaijani dish made from thinly rolled dough that is cooked briefly on a convex griddle known as saj (wikipedia). [Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.]

here i imbibe the power of ZOROASTRIAN fire and its main spiritual philosophy: positive thoughts, positive words, positive actions! [Photo credit: Danila Ilyushchenko.]

after all the chaos of sudden change of venue, due to crazy wind, people found the new place and successfully had our event in BAKU!!! all is well when it…

Indigenous rights are under attack in Norway, where the “most environmentally damaging project in country’s history” is being built in the Arctic! What can we do to stop it and…

…we are honored to be bringing my film with the same themes to screen in the defiant, active, and beautiful city. WANTOKS: dance of resilience in Melanesia is screening alongside…

Historic Centre of Sheki with the Khan’s Palace. excited to be here and visit it! www.smartertravel.com/new-unesco-world-heritage-sites-2019/ [Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.]

‘The magnitude of warming is so high that everything is melting everywhere now’. Glacier collapse shows climate impact: https://www.independent.co.uk/…/arctic-summer-global-warmin… [Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.]  

lost with so many options 🙂. pls guide me! Abşeron Peninsula Qobustan Northern Azerbaijan Quba & around Northwestern Azerbaijan İsmayıllı Lahıc Qəbələ Şəki Qax & İlisu Zaqatala & Car Balakən…

Photo credit: Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center in BAKU

lost with so many options 🙂. pls guide me! Abşeron Peninsula Qobustan Northern Azerbaijan Quba & around Northwestern Azerbaijan İsmayıllı Lahıc Qəbələ Şəki Qax & İlisu Zaqatala & Car Balakən…

From Ali Feruz via Marianna Trembovler: My country on fire. We already lost a lot of forests and wild animals. Government doing nothing. I don’t know what else to say…

only 2 were issued in 2018! I have been trying to visit for years, If anyone can help us, please let us know!!! Stephen Lioy visited Eritrea and took these…

“For all Jair Bolsonaro’s well-documented hostility to indigenous rights, an aerial assault on the Amazon seems far-fetched. But campaigners believe that under Brazil’s new administration indigenous communities face their most…

USA is out of control with lack of gun control 🙁 [Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.]

…making me lose access to the repository of posts, comments, messages, interactions with thousands of friends and supporters, i decided to make a blog be the master repository of our…

#YOGA: not a #work-out, but a #work-in 🙂 [Photo courtesy of Iara Lee.]

Here’s an interesting take on John Lewis’s support for the resolution. What do you think about this, friends? “There’s no question as to Lewis’s credentials as a long-standing member of…