I have returned from an enlightening journey to Vietnam and Cambodia. Neither country is free from the taint of political and corporate...

Tomorrow I leave for another visit to Vietnam and Cambodia for a couple of weeks. It has been 10 years since I was in these two...

The occasional Capitol Scooper by Ed Boshart The Hudson Institute (Washington DC) in August scheduled a series of panel discussions...

[Disclaimer/Proclaimer: To Friends/Readers/Browsers: Occasionally, I will include in this blog a strictly news-oriented report out of...

Get a glass of wine or cup of coffee, sit yourself down in front of a computer or television screen and stereo music system, and savor...

Sunflower "Bring me the sunflower, crazed with the love of light” Eugenio Montale Ah Sun-flower! weary of time, Who countest the steps of...

(Click on Image to watch video) This is Segment 1 of my video "Iran's Magical Persia", posted on YouTube. The feature-length documentary...

Cuba Connection — 2018 (*Photos have been selected at random) A Metaphor Walking the streets of Havana in March 2018, I spied a man in a...

Cristobal Colon (Christopher Columbus) never set foot or planted the flag for the Crown of Castille on North America. However, he found...

A Metaphor Walking the streets of Havana in March 2018, I spied a man in a white T-shirt watching a spontaneous soccer match below his...

Even before touring the city of Havana proper, I am enthralled by the alternating flow of shiny and rumpled, rusting metal objects on the...

A movie just released to the public, titled "Chappaquiddick", presents a version of events that linked now deceased Ted Kennedy, a former...

Before leaving Iran, it is only fitting in a way that I/we step away from the beauty and progressive qualities on display in the country...

On the western side of Isfahan’s grand square looms the Ali Qapu, a towering pavilion topped by pillars, under reconstruction, and behind...

It's early morning, late September. I stride across Meidan-e Shah Square (the massive Royal Square) in old town Esfahan (or Isfahan),...

In the wilderness about 200 miles south of Tehran is a place called “Half of the World.” Ishfahan, twice the capital of Persia, was the...

Shiraz, Iran is a poet's (Hafiz's) oasis, where the art of Islam has prominence

“Last night, from the cypress branch, the nightingale sang, In Old Persian tones, the lesson of spiritual stations.” -- Hafez (Note:...

I arrived at the ruins of Persepolis, near Shiraz, with great anticipation. The skies were clear and the sun burned hot even in...

Tomb of Cyrus the Great (all photos are my own) “O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus...