Shakti Yogmaya — A Tradition of Dissent in Nepal

Shakti Yogmaya — A Tradition of Dissent in Nepal

[1993, Originally published in “Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya”] In East Nepal, early in this century, an extraordinary uprising took place. Led by a…

Iraqi Landscapes: the Path of Martyrs

Iraqi Landscapes: the Path of Martyrs

March 23, 2018, Counterpunch.org In the final thirty kilometers drive back to my home in the Catskills, along a vacant highway through hills of leafless…

Iraqis’ Diet Fifteen Years After the Invasion

Iraqis’ Diet Fifteen Years After the Invasion

April 12, 2018, Counterpunch.org Some Iraqis might assert that today everything is available in their country. That’s true to a degree; if you exclude self-sufficiency.…

Sacred Assemblies in Baghdad

Sacred Assemblies in Baghdad

April 26, 2018, Counterpunch.org If there’s any argument against our excessive reliance on digital platforms to maintain social fabric, it is surely found inside Iraq…

Back to the Margins

Back to the Margins

May 31, 2005, Towards Freedom  In the long struggle between Iraq and the US, Iraqi women have been the most harmed of that nation’s beleaguered…

Tibetan Pottery

Tibetan Pottery

Originally published in Ceramics Monthly, Illustrated. March, 1993. Tibet’s otherwise bleak, brown land­ scape is sometimes broken by rust-colored hillocks. Located just beyond the mud…