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Traveloscope

Traveloscope is the newest section of our English website. It will contain various materials related to travel, cultures and the diversity of the world in general. Unlike travelogues or travel photos, which usually relate personal experiences, traveloscopes can be anything, from short stories, comics, sketches, drawings, videos, music, fables, texts about bizarre traditions, weird cultural moments and so on.

We will be adding the materials to this section as we translate them, but don't hold your breath.

Weather Man

29. 12. 2014
Weather Man
Evgenia Arbugaeva
[Khodovarikha, Russian Federation]

Vyacheslav Korotki is a man of extreme solitude. He is a trained polyarnik, a specialist in the polar north, a meteorologist. In the past thirty years, he has lived on Russian ships and, more recently, in Khodovarikha,...

Lost in translation

Lost in translation

Ella Frances Sanders, Maria Popova

"Words belong to each other," Virginia Woolf said in the only surviving recording of her voice, a magnificent meditation on the beauty of language....

The Statue of Liberty in Paris

The Statue of Liberty in Paris

Cyriaque Lamar

In science fiction filmdom, the destruction of the Statue of Liberty is merely a sign that the carnage is chugging along at a steady tack. But...

Travelling: Running Away or Running Towards?

Travelling: Running Away or Running Towards?

Nomadic Matt

My dad always asks what I'm running away from with my travels. A few weeks ago, a commenter told me to stop running away and live life. And I once...

The United Fruit Company

The United Fruit Company

Pablo Neruda

When the trumpet sounded
everything was prepared on earth,
and Jehovah gave the world
to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,
Ford Motors,...

The real story of poverty

The real story of poverty

Brandon Stanton

If Instagram followers were currency, street photographer Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York, would be a wealthy man. Known and beloved for his...

Being a gynaecologist in Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world

Being a gynaecologist in Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world

"When I started working, I would not help people when they came to me for an abortion. I would say no," says Dr Lima, an Afghan gynaecologist who...

Catalan Atlas

Catalan Atlas

The Catalan Atlas is the most important Catalan map of the medieval period (drawn and written in 1375). It was produced by the Majorcan cartographic...

Damascus: Blue

Damascus: Blue

Abo Ghabi

I've had a recurring dream since I fled the Yarmouk Refugee Camp and came to Beirut. The dream takes me back to besieged Yarmouk, where death and...

The Time We Live

The Time We Live

John Berger

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...

Are you a Traveller or a Tourist

Are you a Traveller or a Tourist

John Flinn

"Tours for travelers, not tourists" is the slogan of a tour company whose brochure landed on my desk a while back. This stuck me as a pretty nifty...

John Pilger: The truth of war is grotesque

John Pilger: The truth of war is grotesque

John Pilger has clear views about the duty of journalists. True to form, his latest film The War You Don't See pulls no punches. Shortly before this...

Who Is Jumber Lezhava? (And Why Should You Care?)

Who Is Jumber Lezhava? (And Why Should You Care?)

Tom Allen

He's sitting behind a paper-strewn desk in a unlit office with faded pastel-green walls, surrounded on all sides by boxes and files which obscure...

Being a woman

Being a woman

Carol Rossetti

Offensive statements about girls and women are more common than you think. Everyday, females around the world hear rude and abusive words towards...

Forough Farrokhzad: The House Is Black

Forough Farrokhzad: The House Is Black

Smirna Kulenovic

In 1950's Tehran, in Iran, Forough Farrokhzad is 16 years old and has just gotten married to her cousin Parviz Shapour, against her family's will. A...

On the Absolute, the Sublime, and Ecstatic Truth

On the Absolute, the Sublime, and Ecstatic Truth

Werner Herzog

This text was originally delivered by Werner Herzog as a speech in Milano, Italy, following a screening of his film "Lessons of Dark­ness" on...

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