I spent the extended weekend at a video art festival in the small town Kežmarok in the High Tatras in eastern Slovakia. Slovakia has a large...

Tsam performers dressed as warriors pose for a photo. They serve as guardians of the sacrifial offerings at the Erlik Tsam from Urga . Erlik...

Once in a blue moon, reading Finnish tabloids can make you shout for joy, and today was such a memorable occasion. Ilta-Sanomat reported th...

In this summer heat it's particularly interesting to mentally visit the harsh winters of the far north. The Razvumchorr plateau is part ...

After Ainur's Ph.D. promotion (mentioned below), I flew back home to Berlin from Copenhagen. There were two Tibetan monks at the airport...

So the Iranian opposition and its mostly young urban intellectual supporters are convinced that the vote that supposedly re-elected Ahmadine...

I posted a picture and some links about Huang Xiaoming on one of my comics blogs (because he looks a bit like one of my characters), and Ai...