Michael Smith — Excerpt: There is a Chinese saying (some would say a curse): “May you live in interesting times.”
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Drawing Back the Curtain: Russia 1991 & Eastern Europe 1992 (Part 4 – Budapest, Hungary)
Michael Smith — Excerpt: The city of Budapest, sometimes referred to back then as the Paris of Eastern Europe, was formed from three separate towns straddling the Danube—Buda, Pest and Obuda.
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Drawing Back the Curtain: Russia 1991 & Eastern Europe 1992 (Part 3 – Prague, Czechoslovakia)
Michael Smith — Excerpt: The fog had lifted and we found ourselves residing in an example of Soviet architectural chic, a massive 22-storey, 168-roomed block of flats that had been converted into a hotel.
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Reading Shafak in a Burning World: The Art of Storytelling
Panchami — Excerpt: What began as reading ‘about’ the region transcended into reading ‘from’ the region. Shafak’s work was a beacon, my entry into literature from West Asia.
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The Road to Limerick
Sarah Das Gupta — Excerpt: We were hoping to hitch a lift up the beautiful West Coast to the city of Limerick where we had arranged to stay for a few days.