Azerbaijan: The Cultural Learnings of Norway's Borat and Others
Eurovision may now be over, but the controversy over Azerbaijan's freedom-of-speech practices keeps grooving on. The latest matters at hand kicked off with the burlesque. Norwegian-Iranian satirist...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Eurovision Terrorist Attack Foiled, Government Says
When music talents battled for the title of Europe’s best pop act in Baku at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest last week, little did they know that there was a parallel battle going on backstage between...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Pop Music vs. Islam
What happens if European pop music and Islamic fundamentalism -- two equally powerful forces -- come head to head in Baku this week? Signs of a sequins-versus-turbans face-off already are emerging, as...
View ArticleEurovision: Azerbaijan's Three Days of Fame
Sabina Babayeva is not the only Azerbaijani singer preparing for Eurovision. The government apparently has a song to sing, too, and it's called (with apologies to Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe)...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Aliyev Son-in-Law Scores Eurovision Gig
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s son-in-law, pop singer Emin Agalarov, has been confirmed as an act for Baku’s staging of Eurovision, the European Broadcasting Union’s annual pop blow-out, but a...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: What Is the Connection Between Hitler and Pop Music?
Call it Godwin’s law in action; the longer an online debate goes on, the higher the probability becomes that one side will compare the other to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Hence, it took only so much...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Reporter Beating Follows European Court Fine for Brutality...
One day after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Baku must pay compensation for the police beating of an Azerbaijani journalist, another Azerbaijani journalist has ended up in the hospital,...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Mossad Not to Participate in Eurovision (In Case You Were...
Two big news topics involving Azerbaijan recently have been a report about its alleged military cooperation with Israel against Iran and, of course, the ongoing saga of its preparations for next...
View ArticleAzerbaijani President's Son-in-Law to Perform at Eurovision
Few people may think that Eurovision, an unbridled celebration of European pop music, is all about family values. But when the glitzy annual music contest due arrives in Baku this May, the Caucasus...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Disco for Democracy?
European pop beats will hit Azerbaijan soon, but, before that, looks like the police are doing the hitting. Just like almost anything from Azerbaijan these days, the recent beatings and arrests of...
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