There is an entertaining book that captures the reminisces of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman: “Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman”. A champion of quantum electrodynamics, particle physics, the Manhatten Project, plus much more, in reality the book is only tangentially related to his successes in his field and instead focused…

It has been five months since the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia signed the November 10th ceasefire agreement that ended the violent elements of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh war, a capitulation that I reported at the time in this previous article. Though it appears that on the ground the situation…

The six week war abruptly ends in turmoil: Azerbaijan brings the Artsakh to its knees, aided by the powers of Russia and Turkey. From this, expect mass expulsions, ethnic cleansing and the bitter implications for future conflicts This article is split into three sections: A piece by me The outcome…

Six weeks, thousands dead, failed ceasefires, war crimes, terrorists - a meltdown of a long frozen conflict You would be forgiven if your understanding of the current 2020 war in Nagorno Karabakh is basic, if not completely lacking. Media coverage of the conflict has been very muted (though not non-existent)…

Recipe time: 70min (40min prep, 30min cooking) Zhingyalov Hats is a traditional dish from Artsakh, and if you have ever visited the region you will have undoubtedly been served this flatbread brimming with herbs and flavour! I do not have the privilege of having an Artsakh herb patch in my…

(this piece was written / posted on social media on October 7th, 10 days into the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war). This is a really old photo of my brother and I having an Armenian-style Barbeque ‘khorovadz’, back in 2003 (I am 8yrs old). What is much older in this photo are…