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Society
75-year-old Kyrgyz man on incredible bicycle ride through seven countries to attend Nomad Games
BISHKEK: A 75-year-old man from Kyrgyzstan is confronting age, natural elements and challenges as he sets out a long bike ride to attend the World Nomad Games in Turkey. Mamyt Tashtanov, a resident of Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan, will ride through seven countries – Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia…
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Culture
Ahmad Samiei Gilani: A man who has lived in three centuries
By Alireza Bahrami TEHRAN: A cultural figure lives in Iran who has lived in 3 consecutive centuries. Ahmad Samiei Gilani is the most famous editor in Iran and whose life span was in the 13th, 14th and 15th solar centuries (Iranian calendar). He was born on January 31, 1921, while…
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People
Travel journal of FIEL Secretary General to Palestine
RAMALLAH: On July 21, after arriving at Amman Airport in Jordan and going through police checks, Secretary General of FIEL, Leonardo Gastón Herrmann passed through five checkpoints for ten hours during which he first experienced the brutal conditions to which thousands of Palestinians who want to enter their land are…
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Society
At the opening of Medellín Poetry Festival, it rains world poems
By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, President of Asia Journalists Association MEDELLÍN: The Medellín International Poetry Festival opened its XXXII edition on Saturday with a rain of poems to celebrate the reunion with the public on the return to the event after taking refuge in virtuality for two years due to the pandemic.…
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Politics
Ire among some in Singapore over Sri Lankan Terminator’s stay
By Ivan Lim Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN SINGAPORE: The unexpected arrival in Singapore of former Sri Lankan strongman Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 73, on July 1, has caused anger among some people in the Republic and raised inconvenient questions for the authorities here. Critics, overlooking the fact that he tendered…
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Culture
Celebrating the 1100th Anniversary of Ahmed Ibn Fadlan’s Travel to Tatarstan
By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid President, Asia Journalists Association ALEXANDRIA: On July 14, the Media Club had its monthly forum in the Russian House of Alexandria on the topic: “1100 years since the arrival of the mission of the traveler Ibn Fadlan to Tatarstan”. The event was attended by Mr. Pavel Kydysyuk…
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Politics
Safety Waves versus Death Waves
A keynote speech at the 60th African literature and writers’ anniversary conference By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid IBADAN, NIGERIA: In our time, we live in more than one circle; circles that narrow and widen, touch, overlap and intersect, and sometimes even resist each other, and contradict with other circles. They are circles…
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South Asia
Pakistan: Uncertain Past, Uncertain Future
By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: “Pakistan is passing through critical times’ and we have to take tough decisions to steer the country out of crisis” – this is what almost all the successive civil and military rulers used to say after coming into power, for over seven decades…
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Culture
Flak and some praise for Singapore Press Club’s Hall of Fame
By Ivan Lim, Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN SINGAPORE: An initiative by the Singapore Press Club in setting up a Hall of Fame for media personalities has received some praise, but the flak it drew was unhesitating because of its noticeably exclusive approach in choosing candidates. Fifty people made…
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