FEAST OR FAMINE

  Educated (2018) is set in the mountains of Idaho, rural America. It is the memoir of Tara Westover, a daughter of an extreme Survivalist. Her father is preparing for the The End of Days.    For Tara, standing up against the word of her father was forbidden. He did not send his children to school or to the doctor. None of his children’s births were registered. And they were not allowed to socialise with ‘outsiders’ – he preferred isolation from society.    Tara and her siblings were always ready for the end of the world. It never came.    Tara knew at sixteen that she had to leave home and get an education.    Her memoir is written in three parts: 1) up to the age of sixteen; 2) the gaining of education and wisdom; and 3) continuing education abroad through a scholarship, resulting in a doctorate degree.    Tara’s history course opens her eyes to American and world events, while her psychology and philosophy classes open her eyes t...

 

  Gremi Church near Telavi in Kakheti, in the eastern region of Georgia – a branch of the Great Silk Road – is a UNESCO Heritage listed site.     The Gremi Chuch was built during King Leon’s reign in 1565. It includes the Church of Archangels and the Royal Tower.   MARTINA NICOLLS MartinaNicollsWebsite   Martinasblogs Publications Facebook Paris Website Animal Website Flower Website SUBSCRIBE TO MARTINA NICOLLS FOR NEWS AND UPDATES  MARTINA NICOLLS   is an international human rights-based consultant in education, healing and wellbeing, peace and stabilization, foreign aid audits and evaluations, and the  author   of:  The Paris Residences of James Joyce   (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

 

  Dina Oganova’s ’Tell Your Daughters’ photography exhibition appears in the Museum of Modern Art in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 10-24 June 2022.   The exhibition ‘Tell Your Daughters’ tells the stories of more than 20 women through visual art and documentary photography.   The Georgian office of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), with the Embassy of Sweden, organized the exhibition to communicate human rights related issues, particularly to advocate women’s and girl’s empowerment. The project was initiated under the UN Joint Program for Gender Equality, and also supported by Kolga Tbilisi Photo.   It focuses on bodily autonomy and bodily integriy – the power for women and girls to determine their own choices about their bodies and to have the information, services, and means to do so, free from discrimination, coercion, and violence.   Dina Oganova is a freelance Georgian documentary photographer working in Georgia and the Caucasus region. She was the first...