by Tale Heydarov | Mar 17, 2021 | Blog, Heritage, News
In my latest article for Eurasia Review, I how highlight how Azerbaijanis have increasingly turned to reading and books in 2020, a year marked by hardship due to the COVID-19 crisis and the conflict in Karabakh, and why I think the best-selling books in Azerbaijan...
by Tale Heydarov | Feb 22, 2020 | Blog, Heritage, News
The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) recently announced Qabala in Azerbaijan as its ‘City of Tourism’ for 2020. This designation provides the city and region with an opportunity to showcase itself to the world and to create an...
by Tale Heydarov | Nov 13, 2019 | Blog, Heritage, News
It is not often that Azerbaijanis are pleasantly surprised regarding the media’s reporting of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. Yet the BBC’s recent HardTalk interview with Armenia’s Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, did just that. For the first time in memory, a key...
by Tale Heydarov | Oct 24, 2019 | Heritage, News, Sport
In the US, Monday evenings are synonymous with football, albeit a pigskin-throwing, rumbustious American variant to what the rest of the world identifies as the ‘beautiful game.’ In Europe, however – and particularly in Azerbaijan – the world game (soccer to our...
