130th anniversary of the outstanding Azerbaijani dramatist, Huseyn Javid “Damn all life, all the Universe, if all the glorious world wars, bloody battles won’t generate love in the end, universal love” Huseyn Javid, Extract from the play “Amir Timur” Biography The outstanding poet and playwright, Huseyn Javid, was born in 1882 in the ancient Azerbaijani […]
Book Review: History of the Caucasus: Volume 1: At the Crossroads of Empires by Christoph Baumer Christoph Baumer is a distinguished historian and chronicler of events, full stop. The more of Baumer’s extensive and expansive works you read, the more you realise that very few rival him, not just for the breadth of subjects that he […]
BELOW ME THE SILVER-CAPPED CAUCASUS LIES Below me the silver-capped Caucasus lies… A stream at my feet rushes, foaming and roaring. I watch a lone eagle, o’er the peaks calmly soaring Drift near as he motionless circles the skies. Here rivers are born that tear mountain asunder And landslides begin with a crash as of […]
The Alphabet Shift in Kazakh Language Over years of research and work in Kazakhstan, I have seen many Latin representations of the Kazakh alphabet. Some were pockmarked with apostrophes – others riddled with diacritics. Others still imposed Latin letters incorrectly on the Russian language, creating the following image (from the mobile application of www.soyle.kz, a […]
