Writing

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Essays, field notes, research pieces, conversations and reading lists. Long-form, sourced, and revised when the ground contradicts them.

  • A high valley in the Pamirs, with green irrigated fields below bare mountain slopes.

    Travel Journal · 5 July 2014 · 17 min · EN

    The Jewels of Badakhshan

    Ismaili Islam, four-layered ceilings and dying luthiers in the river valleys of the Pamirs.

    Badakhshan · Khorog · Wakhan valley · Yamg · Andorov