A Shattered Idol in the Black Garden
Lee on Sep 09 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
(photo: Rahim Alizadeh)
In Verdi’s opera Nabucco –the namesake of the western gas pipeline to Europe that holds the promise of partial independence from Russian energy reliance– the Jewish patriots take the daughter of the Babylonian king hostage, in order to compel his charity for Jerusalem. Today, after the Georgian invasion, Azerbaijan is a [...]
