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January-March 2011 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume III., Issue 1. _____________________________________________________________________________________ GEOPOLITICS & ECONOMY..................................................................... 95 BHAT, Bilal Ahmad Socio-Economic Dimensions of Globalization : A Case Study of Labour Mobility in Uzbekistan.....................................................................................................................96 МАРАШ, Ласло «Казахстан на пути к демократии»........................................................................................120 MARÁCZ, László : Kazakhstan on the Path of Democracy ...................................................................................... 122 LITERATURE & ARTS ................................................................................ 123 EKUKLU, Bülent Identification of Cultural Structures in the Turkish Society through the Films of Yavuz Turgul................................................................................................................................124 MURAKEÖZY, Éva Patrícia The Master of the Nigredo.............................................................................................................131 TRAVELOGUE.............................................................................................. 136 TAPON, Francis Estonia — Revenge of the Nerds ..................................................................................................137 BOOK REVIEW ............................................................................................ 167 FARKAS, Flórián From the Caucasus to New Zealand.............................................................................................168 OBRUSÁNSZKY, Borbála The Religious Belief System of the Scythian People................................................................179 CLASSICAL WRITINGS ON EURASIA................................................... 182 HUNTER, William Wilson A Pilgrim Scholar.............................................................................................................................183 _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2011 6
January-March 2011 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume III., Issue 1. _____________________________________________________________________________________ DEAR READER, IMAGINATION The 2011 Dutch Book Week’s (16-26 March 2011) present was an autobiographical book of Kader Abdolah (the pen name of Hossein Sadjadi Ghaemmaghami Farahani) entitled ‘De kraai’ (‘The Crow’). The leading Dutch writer of Iranian origin nicely combines autobiographical themes with commentaries on Dutch contemporary politics, international politics, and literature into a thrilling kaleidoscope. Personally I liked the following sentence most: “God gave humanity one of its most powerful qualities: the power of imagination”. Here imagination is used in a broad sense, to dream of something noble and to achieve it, to become somebody that one is dreaming of. In the case of the author this process proved a life saving one during the period that he spent in the asylum centers in the Netherlands. There he imagined that he would become the best Dutch writer; following this he did everything to achieve his dream. At present he tops the Dutch literary life, which proves again the divine power of imagination. Another proof is related to a segment of the immigrants (second, third generation) living in the Netherlands or in other parts of Western Europe. They are also using imagination to become highly valued members of their country and Kader Abdolah registers their successes. As he remarks in the second part of the book: “you can show the history of a city best through the changes happening to her shops”. Complacency leads first to stagnation then to decline of a civilization. People who possess the power of imagination in this broader sense are those who bring a civilization forwards, and are best suited to bring new life into a ripe civilization. It is no coincidence that the contemporary leading writers in Europe are all of Oriental origin: Salman Rushdie in UK, Gao Xingjian and Amin Maalouf in France, Orhan Pamuk in Turkey and Kader Abdolah in the Netherlands. Flórián Farkas Editor-in-Chief The Hague, March 31, 2011 _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2011 7
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