Category Archives: Azerbaijan

>Kurban Said’s Ali and Nino

Posted on April 23, 2010 by

> I finally finished reading Kurban Said’s Ali and Nino: A Love Story, a gift from my Azeri host, Vali Huseynov.  The novel was published in 1937, and Kurban Said is likely a pseudonym.  The novel was most likely a … Continue reading →

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>Mingachevir’s PA Team "Charitable Youth" Wins National Azerbaijan Award

Posted on April 13, 2010 by

> Through the email listserv created by Shukufe Nacafova, I was informed that the Public Achievement team Charitable Youth, mentored by teacher Gulnaz Hajiyeva and college student Elvin Aliyev in Mingachevir, Azerbaijan, recently received a national award in Baku for … Continue reading →

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>Thomas Goltz’s Chechnya Diary

Posted on April 12, 2010 by

>I finished Thomas Goltz’s Chechnya Diary over the weekend. I highly recommend this book (as well as Georgia Diary and Azerbaijan Diary) if people are interested in reading about these three remarkably interesting countries and regions.   However, I read … Continue reading →

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>You can see more photographs of the Azerbaijan and Republic of Georgia trip

Posted on April 8, 2010 by

>at my new Shutterfly website.  Who knows?  You might be in one of those photographs!:) As usual, I’d love to hear from people.  Please use the “comment” feature at the bottom of the postings to let me and the readers … Continue reading →

Posted in Azerbaijan, Georgia, photographs | 4 Comments

>Georgia and Azerbaijan – Concluding Thoughts

Posted on April 8, 2010 by

> Map Photo by lyndonK2′s photostreamFlickr Creative Commons It’s Thursday, 8 April, and I spent part of this morning reading a New York Times article titled, “An Insurgency Evolves in the Caucasus Region as Wounds Fester,” which describes the resurgence … Continue reading →

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>Using Theatre of the Oppressed as a Public Achievement Learning Tool

Posted on April 7, 2010 by

>I became familiar with Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) approximately the same time that I became familiar with Public Achievement (1998 – 2000), so in my mind, these two pedagogies (and I call them that because for me they have … Continue reading →

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>Comparing and Contrasting Public Achievement USA and Caucacus Versions

Posted on April 6, 2010 by

>On April 2, Nickia Jensen, a great PA team member and PA coach in her own right, commented on this blog, asking, “I am wondering how you see/think of the connections between the PA you see there and the PA … Continue reading →

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>To Georgia and Azerbaijan

Posted on March 19, 2010 by

>I leave for Tblisi, Georgia, and Ganja, Azerbaijan, on Monday, March 22.  I am going on behalf of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship to train Public Achievement coaches in those two cities.  I am very excited about the trip … Continue reading →

Posted in Azerbaijan, Center for Democracy and Citizenship, Georgia, PAUnite, Theatre of the Oppressed | 4 Comments