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11/11/2014

http://ulixess.blogspot.com/2014/11/trypolis-miedzy-bogiem-i-szatanem.html

14/09/2014

Jeśli ktoś nie czytał to cąły artykuł jest dostępny w sieci.

Iraccy Kurdowie nie przestają żywić nadziei na utworzenie własnego państwa. Chaos, jaki ogarnia Bliski Wschód, wydaje się im służyć.

10/09/2014

Postanowiłem też zrobić galerię zdjęć na stronie National Geographic - pierwsza seria to 15 zdjęć z Kirkuku. On National Geographic website I uploaded 15 pictures from Kirkuk. You can find them on the following link. http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/profile/790268/

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10/09/2014

On my blog I just added a story about Kirkuk, exeptionally it is in English. http://ulixess.blogspot.com/2014/09/one-day-in-kirkuk-in-english.html

19/08/2014

Polecam mój tekst o Somalii w najnowszym numerze Tygodnika Powszechnego!

Istnieje sobie spokojnie od 20 lat, choć dotąd nikt go nie uznał: państwo Somaliland. Nie ma tu wojny, islamistów ani piratów. Są za to zabytki bezcenne dla ludzkości – dziś zagrożone.

24/07/2014

http://ulixess.blogspot.com.tr/2014/07/ostatnie-chwile-w-kurdystanie.html

20/07/2014

A tu trochę więcej zdjęć z Khalifanu i okolic / More pics from Khalifan and surroundings

20/07/2014

17/07/2014

You may see here beauty or not but I can see it. However Kirkuk is so much destroyed and neglected. Not like Suleymani or Hawler (Erbil)

17/07/2014

You may see here beauty or not but I can see it. However Kirkuk is so much destroyed and neglected. Not like Suleymani or Hawler (Erbil)

17/07/2014

Zapraszam do czytania mojej relacji z Kirkuku (spisane na szybko, bo dopiero co wróciłem stamtąd, tzn. teraz jestem w Erbilu) http://ulixess.blogspot.com/2014/07/jeden-dzien-w-kirkuku.html

13/07/2014

http://ulixess.blogspot.com/2014/07/diyarbakir.html

13/07/2014

I was writing this yesterday on the bus.

13/07/2014

I was writing this yesterday on the bus but my battery went off: I am on the bus going from Diyarbakir to Suleimani. The day in Diyarbakir was very nice however too short. It is strange how fast time is passing when you enjoy your time. And this was the case in Diyarbakir. I woke up quite late as yet I had nice conversation with local Kurds and after good breakfast in my hotel I went to buy the ticket to Iraq and then walked around the town, talked to people and finally met an old friend (Polish). The world is so little. Yet I was surprised to see how the armenian church in Diyarbakir hs been renovated. Few years ago I saw it as a total ruin. It was destroyed 100 years ago during Armenian Genocide and for 100 years there was no political mood to renovated it. But things change in this world, sometimes for better but I hope not only temporarily. However many Kurds are pesimistic about the future. In Iraqi Kurdistan things are going better, however in Kirkuk there was bombing, 9 people dead. And in Kobane Kurds fight Islamic State terrorists.

11/07/2014

I am again in Diyarbakir. Earlier today I visited archeological museum in Stambul. mong others there were some artefacts from Ni**od and Ashur. I will be soon so close to these places.

10/07/2014

http://ulixess.blogspot.com.tr/2014/07/stambu.html

10/07/2014

I've just arrived to Istanbul. Going from Sabiha airport I was thinking about my previous visits to this town. The first one left me with not good impressions and I liked much more the rest of Turkey but next visit, that came many years later, was much more nice. I was looking at the buildings on the Asian side of Istanbul, on the people, traffic (that does not remind asian traffic but rater european one) and i realized that the same thoughts I had when I came here for the first time. Is Turkey European or not? But, now I know that the answer is not that simple as Istanbul is as much representative for Turkey as Moscow o Piter is for Russia. It means that it is a little bit world inside the world, Something different. And yet it depends on wich part of Istanbul. And I was thinking again, half of the people of Turkey are those conservative Anatolians, that shape now more and more the Erdogan's Turkey drifting away from Ataturk's path. And yet 1/3 or 1/4 are those cosmipolitans, leftists, intelecual-open-minded etc. etc. And the rest are nationalists, maybe secularists but non-tolerant for minorities.And they are conservative however Kurdish political representation is very leftist (PKK and HDP-BDP). Paradox. And with such thoughts my bus entered the bridge that joins European part with the Asian one. This is no more any border of the worlds. I came to Taksim. It has changed since my last visit and there was a big space for iftar (ramadan dinner). People already waiting for the dusk to have their meal. Some meters farther Istiklol Cadesi has not changed, also waiting for dusk, to start the party. Music, alcohol, shopping and human jungle.

10/07/2014

In Vienna, yesterday I visited Tajikistan embassy to collect my visa for next trip. Then I went to Kunsthistorishemuseum. I was not disapointed. Beautiful collection. I visited also Neueburg where there are museums of Ephesus, Armory and Musical Instruments. There should be captions not only in German but also in English. Today I have a flight to Stambul and then Diyarbakir and Kurdistan.

10/07/2014

Relcja z wyjazdu w języku polskim będzie prowadzona na blogu. Na facebooku będą linki do bloga oraz wpisy po angielsku. Postaram się dokonywać wpisów codziennie. On my blog i will make reports from my travel in Polish and here I will write in English. I'll try to write something every day.

08/07/2014

Brak czasu spowodował że ostatnio nie było tu żadnej mojej aktywności. Może gdyby było więcej polubień, komentarzy, to miałbym większą motywację. Ale to nie oznacza końca podróży i relacji. Właśnie wyruszylem w kolejną podróż - do Kurdystanu. Ponieważ wziąłem laptopa to jest szansa na relacje na żywo. Więc zachęcam do odwiedzania Ulixesa, bedziecie mieli relacje na żywo prawie z linii frontu :-)

12/06/2014

Addis Ababa to ogromne i bardzo młode miasto. Zbudował je dopiero Menelik II około 100 lat temu, w miejscu gdzie praktycznie niczego wcześniej nie było, wybierając to miejsce na nową stolicę. Addis Ababa, czasem chaotyczna, pełna kontrastów, jest jednak ciekawym i wartym zwiedzenia miastem.

12/06/2014

Addis Ababa to ogromne i bardzo młode miasto. Zbudował je dopiero Menelik II około 100 lat temu, w miejscu gdzie praktycznie niczego wcześniej nie było, wybierając to miejsce na nową stolicę. Addis Ababa, czasem chaotyczna, pełna kontrastów, jest jednak ciekawym i wartym zwiedzenia miastem.

30/05/2014

No, this is not a toy, this is a weapon of Mau Mau rebels during their fight in Kenya against British colonial power (National Museum in Nairobi)

29/05/2014

National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya: this museum is very interesting and among others the exposition on Kenya history is undoubtedly worth to see. But there is one thing that is striking - almost entire exposition concerns the upland Kenya, the country that came to existance only in XIX c. to make it easier for British colonial power to govern. About the history of Coast, that is quite distinctive, there's very little there. There's only a mention about Swahili towns in Middle Ages. The Omani period is represented by this: picture of slave trader of Swahili-Omani origin. Arab-Muslim slave trade is a true part of Africa history that is rearly mentioned in African Muslim countries but on other hand the history of Omani period on the Coast is not only about slave trade.

27/05/2014

Today's photo - Hargeisa, monument of a Somali regime fighter that was shot down by Somaliland rebels during the war with Siyad Barre regime and governmental bombing of Hargeisa in 1988

27/05/2014

Ponieważ nikt jakoś nie zgadł więc podpisałem te zdjęcia.

26/05/2014

24/05/2014

Berbera is charming, unfortunatelly one of the reasons of its charm is endangered. The Ottoman architecture from late XIX and early XX century is in ruins after the war with Siad Barre regime, more then 20 years ago. And it may be demolished because there's no money and noone cares. Another charm comes from the beach. It is sandy, no stones hurting feet, shalow, warm water, and clean, as it is 2 km outside the town. And they serve exelent fishes there.