Kalmykia on My Mind
Depending on what you’ll accept as a “country,” there are something like 225 of them in the world. I’ve visited about 175 – some many …
From the USSR to the EU
My first trip to Bulgaria was in January of 1967 when, with two other penniless hippies, I alighted from the train in Sofia at about …
My Madrassa
I was thinking recently about the long-term threat posed by the possibly millions of Muslim boys educated in madrassas (religious schools) in Pakistan, Egypt, Palestine, …
Down in Egypt Land
Last December, I was in Egypt for a few days during their elections, which predictably reinstalled Hosni Mubarak, age 77, as president. It will be …