Caucasus
Echoes of Circassia
No matter which paths different Circassians choose or are forced to take, what remains certain is that they prove yet again, like many peoples before and after them, that when a people are forcibly displaced, the notion of return endures the passage of time and the widening of distances.
The Bard of the Caucasus
The revered Armenian cinema auteur Sergei Parajanov both embodied and sought to capture on celluloid the ethnic and cultural diversity of the Caucasus, inspired by the myths and folklore that bind the region together. Yet the world he cherished is now marked by closed borders, nationalist rancor and polarization.
Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh Destroys History as Well as Lives
The decades-long conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan — two ex-Soviet republics wedged between Russia, Turkey and Iran — has been fought not only on the battlefield, but also in history books, where partisan scholars on both sides portray the other group as interlopers on “their” native land.