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Each newsletter is a dispatch from a single location—it could be a city or a hotel, a valley or a café—somewhere between Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Every issue will include reading recommendations, a unique recipe and underreported tales.
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The Fantastic Aslamazyan Sisters (opens the original)
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Welcome back to Journeys Beyond Borders and thanks for being here. This is your full-length newsletter which goes out every other Wednesday. This particular one is also the occasional free instalment so do please share it with anyone who may find it interesting. Share Journeys Beyond Borders with Caroline EdenFor this edition, I’d like to take you to Gyumri, an Armenian city close to the Turkish border, and specificall
Field Notes (opens the original)
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Welcome back to Field Notes, your cultural guide to what’s on where. Focusing on concerts, exhibitions and talks linked to the region Journeys Beyond Borders covers - that is roughly Eastern Europe to Central Asia - it’ll arrive at your inbox every other Monday.~For this packed edition of Field Notes, we’ve got: fashion and architecture colliding in Tashkent, a collective art exhibition in Istanbul to see, a television series on Turkey to watch, a rare Turkmen su
The Prince, the Courtesan and the Missing Diamonds (opens the original)
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A quick mailshot to tell you about an illustrated talk by Calum MacLeod, the author of Uzbekistan: The Golden Road to Samarkand, happening this Friday. The event will take place in Cambridge, England, but crucially it is online too, via Zoom, allowing you to join wherever in the world you are. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9OIP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2
View Finder No.56 (opens the original)
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Welcome back to View Finder an additional offering for paid subscribers of Journeys Beyond Borders where every other Monday I feature a photo or painting, from somewhere between Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and explain why it matters. This one is very short and therefore free to all.Subscribe nowBelow, is a photo I took of an eye-catching painting displayed at the Modern Art Museum of Yerevan. It shows a
Georgian Tea Traditions: Roots and Revival (opens the original)
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My introduction to Georgian tea came ten years ago when I was researching my book Black Sea in northeastern Turkey. There, in the impossibly humid tea fields around Rize, I met Georgian seasonal workers who were picking tea leaves. I watched as, after they’d finished work, they jumped into the back of a truck, flopping down onto the tea sacks, and went by waving and singing in Georgian. John Murray’s early guidebook to Turkey (with ‘maxims and hints for travellers in the East’), published in 184
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