Silk and Chai
Friday, August 23, 2024

‘Let those who build houses lament their destruction’

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A review of A Rift in Time: Travels with my Ottoman Uncle . Cross-posted to Skeireins . Najib Nassar. Only surviving photograph. Several ...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Six Walks in a disappearing wilderness

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Cross-posted to The Heavy Anglophile Orthodox : I just finished reading Palestinian Walks —a poignant and tragic memoir by human rights ...
Sunday, October 15, 2023

The Black Sea as a crossroads of civilisations

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Recently I had the pleasure of reading Russian-American historian Michael Rostovtzeff’s Iranians and Greeks in South Russia . Well… pleasu...
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Monday, August 21, 2023

From Shwe Kokko to KK Park: anarcho-capitalism in action

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aerial view of KK Park, Myanmar Well, here’s a nightmare-fuel story if I ever saw one. Since 2017, a bunch of ethnic militias along the M...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

The progeny of Nurenebi

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‘ If evil deeds cannot be forgotten, I wish to see them recalled without malice and vengeance. ’ The Nurenebi File , written by Ethiopia...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Thoughts on the China-Saudi-Iran deal

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First of all, I think I should state that I welcome this agreement wholeheartedly. The China-Saudi-Iran deal is an immensely positive f...
Saturday, December 17, 2022

Late Tsarist Russia from a child’s perspective

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Kornei Chukovskii’s The Silver Crest is a deeply heartfelt, funny and humane book. I picked it up on a recommendation from a friend at ch...
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