It’s getting to be that time again. The days are hot, but the nights are warm enough for t-shirts. I leave the windows open now at night. When I get out of work, I sometimes stop and breath in deeply. Provided I have enough time to make it to the bus stop, I might even [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Kyrgyzstan
May 29th, 2008
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I have finished and submitted my term paper for Democratization in the Middle East. Naturally, I did a democracy assessment for Kyrgyzstan. While not in the Middle East per se, it is a majority Muslim country that before 1991 had never been. The research was the most fascinating thing. Taking my conversations with people about [...]
Came to a Bridge
May 1st, 2008
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It looks as though I’m going to be staying in the States for the summer. Does this bug me? Sure, it does. I had really, really wanted to get back out there and at the very least do a bit of language training in Anatolia. The big target was, as usual, Central Asia. So I [...]
