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.
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,...
"Words belong to each other," Virginia Woolf said in the only surviving recording of her voice, a magnificent meditation on the beauty of language....
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...
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...
When the trumpet sounded
everything was prepared on earth,
and Jehovah gave the world
to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,
Ford Motors,...
If Instagram followers were currency, street photographer Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York, would be a wealthy man. Known and beloved for his...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
"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 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...
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...
Offensive statements about girls and women are more common than you think. Everyday, females around the world hear rude and abusive words towards...
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...
This text was originally delivered by Werner Herzog as a speech in Milano, Italy, following a screening of his film "Lessons of Darkness" on...