On a sunny afternoon, Shina Shabso was busy making traditional cheese pastries for a wedding on Israel's border with Lebanon, ...

As part of our ongoing series highlighting the work of activists promoting European minority and regional languages in digital spaces, we would like to feature Emre Phsigusa (@emrepshigusa). Through ...

The other day, I was in the waiting room of a doctor’s office in Haifa, when three people walked in and sat behind me. Two were men dressed in Western clothes, one looking to be in his 30s and the ...

The Journal of Caucasian Studies (JOCAS) is a peer-reviewed, bi-annual, international, academic journal. It is also multilingual, including articles in English, Turkish and Russian. JOCAS gives voice ...

For the past 24 years, the International Circassian Association (MChA), which has its headquarters in Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic (KBR), has sought to function as a bridge ...

16 October 2008 Amman - Aiming to revive and preserve the Circassian language and heritage, the Circassian community in Jordan hosted yesterday the First International Circassian Language Conference.

In recent years nationalism studies have been paying increasing attention, perhaps rightly, to the impact of the internet on various ethnic groups, national identities and diasporas. The internet ...

A new UN World Tourism Organization title is set to bring tourists to the small Lower Galilee village, but residents want people to know who they really are – and not throw garbage in their streets.

When Russia extended its empire in the Caucasus region in the late 19th century, its Muslim Circassian population was forced to migrate to areas in the Ottoman Empire, and many settled in what is now ...