Nanao Sakaki, the Walking Poet

Who was Nanao Sakaki? More than a decade after his death, that question is not easy to answer – mostly because he was a little bit of everything,...

The Mystical Poetry of Yunus Emre

The gradual disintegration of the Byzantine Empire enabled the Mongol attacks in the thirteenth century to threaten the population of Asia Minor...

The Time We Live

On the evening of August 8th, which was the third day of street fighting in the London suburb of Croydon, the protesting kids set fire to some...