By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While many countries around the world are taking a go-it-alone, isolationist approach to dealing with the mounting international covid-19 pandemic, often resorting to finger-pointing blame games, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is instead adopting a let’s-work-together policy to confront the disease. The NAM — a forum of 120 developing world states that are not formally aligned with or
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The first step in resolving any international territorial dispute is for both parties to acknowledge their involvement in the conflict, said Brenda Shaffer, coauthor of the Washington-based political research organization Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ (FDD) recent publication “Occupied Elsewhere” (dealing with protracted international conflicts and territorial disputes) and Georgetown University professor of foreign policy and international
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS BAKU, Azerbaijan — Tourism is a relatively new industry in Azerbaijan. Despite the fact that the tiny, landlocked republic can lay claim to three separate UNESCO World Heritage Sites — the medieval walled city of Old Baku, with its mysterious and emblematic Maiden Tower and the Palace of King Shirvanshah, built in the 15th century; the incomparable
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS BAKU, Aizerbaijan — When it comes to bone-chilling winds, Chicago has nothing on Baku. Situated on the southern side of the tip of Azerbaijan’s jutting Absheron Peninsula, the ancient Azeri capital is almost constantly battered by chilling, triple-digit-velocity gusts from the Caspian Sea, tempered only by warmer overland breezes from the inland regions of the country to the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS BAKU, Azerbaijan — When Tural Ganjaliyev was just 12 years old, he and his entire family were forcefully expelled from the only home they had ever known by invading Armenian troops. Ganjaliyev and his family were among the 800,000 Azerbaijanis (nearly half of whom were children) who were brutally evicted from their houses and land by Russian-backed
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS BAKU, Azerbaijan — With an entirely new Milli Mejlis (parliamentary general assembly) set to take office next month, Azerbaijan is bracing for a head-to-toe makeover of its social and political system, in keeping with a master plan laid out late last year by President Ilham Aliyev. And with most of the newly elected legislators fresh out of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS BAKU, Azerbaijan — When you have a president who has been in power for more than 16 straight years (in this case, Ilham Aliyev), following in the footsteps of his father (Heydar Aliyev), who held the very same post for the 10 years immediately prior to that, it is easy to assume (or suggest) that your head
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By MAMMAD TALIBOV, Azerbaijani ambassador to Mexico
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By MAMMAD TALIBOV, Azerbaijani ambassador to Mexico
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BY THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The chargé d’affaires of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Mexico, Mammad Talibov, and his wife Kamala Talibova, marked the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) – the first secular parliamentary democracy in the Muslim world – with a lavish, sit-down dinner at the Club Naval Norte on Monday, May 28. In 1918, the
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