STORIES
Fear
October/November/December 2019
From living with a sense of instability to anxiety over being watched, this edition explores what fills people in the South Caucasus with fear and what they are doing to overcome it
Azerbaijan’s workers are always on thin ice
With a large grey economy and poorly observed labour laws, Azerbaijanis who lose their jobs have little hope of recourse.
5 December, 2019
Creating a new home in a new land
When Teona Kasareli, 47, left Georgia 13 years ago, she had a single goal: earn money. She did not plan on making Italy her home and she certainly did not plan on he...
4 December, 2019
Don’t talk!
Don’t talk! is a poetic portrait of a woman whose life is manipulated by fear.
27 November, 2019
Searching for a safe place to play
Children in Armenia’s second largest city still play in the ruins of buildings destroyed in the 1988earthquake. Gyumri, a city of around 120,000 people near the Tur...
26 November, 2019
Portrait
Our main character is a 46-year-old man, who shares a long, communal room in Bediani Psychiatric Hospital with 40 other patients. In his dark room, which is permeated wit...
20 November, 2019