With its rich cultural heritage and breathtaking natural scenery, Turkey has a lot to offer as a holiday destination. From ancient ruins and temples to lavish palaces, the country is a paradise for history and culture lovers. For those who … Continue reading Travel Guide: A Tour of Turkey’s Most Iconic Monuments and Beautiful Landscapes
In the modern era, anyone and everyone can post their views on a particular subject through social media. While today’s technology enables one to do that at any given moment, ancient writers depended on their literary works to tackle socio-political … Continue reading Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and Its Impact on Women in Society
Afterlife and Apocalypse: Accounts of Life after Death across the World 2012. The Fifth Wave. The pandemic that shook the world in 2020. What do these three have in common? The truth is, they reveal humanity’s – or at least, … Continue reading Afterlife and Apocalypse: Accounts of Life after Death Across the World
With the withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan, everything was thrown into chaos in a shockingly short span of time. It took the Taliban an extremely limited amount of time to topple everything that was built together by the … Continue reading Life Under the Veil: Afghan Women and the Taliban Government
What is a Narcissist? Have you ever wondered if your self-love was the reason you did not have many friends or a social life? Has your self-love turned to narcissism? Do you ever confuse confidence with arrogance? There are different … Continue reading Self-Love to Narcissism: Anthropology of Humans and Culture
If you were one of those kids in class always trying to get a laugh with a quick one-liner, you were probably one of the forerunners of the cultural artefact now known as an internet meme. A meme is an … Continue reading The Anthropological Significance of Internet Memes as Digital Artefacts
Over the past several centuries, legal, social and political changes have been made by women. One of them was suffrage. Almost a century would pass before the combined efforts of all the activists would bear fruit and women earned the … Continue reading Anthropology: Tracing the History of Women’s Suffrage Across the World
The past few decades have seen the people of Iraq suffer dire consequences like inaccessibility to essential services and economic stagnation due to conflicts, wars and sanctions. Years of invasions coupled with a war that lasted for decades has taken … Continue reading The Sociocultural Implications of Being a Woman in Iraq
Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov, most famously known by his pseudonym Vladimir Lenin, was born near the river Volga, in Russia. He first read Karl Marx in 1888, and his political views would build up from that point until 1903. Vladimir Lenin … Continue reading Marxism as Applied by the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union and Their Rise to Power