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The Karagöz puppets set their sights on Lefkoşa – and Nicosia


When I last left you, I was down in the dumps, perhaps a poor choice of metaphors given the topic at the time – the fact that a set of Qu’rans had been dumped in the garbage bin and burned…somehow … Continue reading

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Spindizzy in the Maastricht fog with the Karagöz puppets by my side


“Just keep your eyes shut, it’s warm in here.”  That’s all I could think.  The eyes seemed to be cemented shut but the charcoal glow of the behind the eyelids place I found myself in was pretty alluring, so I wasn’t … Continue reading

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