Far and Away: Reporting From the Brink of Change (87 page)

Merkel, Angela,
41

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice,
78

Metropolitan Museum, New York:

Chinese collection in,
184
,
203

conservation of Asian art in,
193

and cultural exchange,
192
,
203

exhibition of work from Taipei,
181
,
182
–83,
184
,
185
,
189
–91,
193
–96,
199
–203

King Tut exhibit (1978),
184
–85

Mexico, public protests in,
184

Michelangelo,
109

Michener, James,
300

Miller, George Bures,
291

Mills, John Atta,
430
,
432

Ming dynasty,
375
,
379
,
382

Minghella, Anthony,
361

Mironenko, Serioja,
64
,
65
,
66

Mironenko, Vladimir,
61
,
64

Misiano, Viktor,
55

Mitchell, Derek,
448
,
454
,
455
,
457
,
459
,
461
,
468

Mitrofanov, Georgi,
100

Miyajima, Tatsuo,
290

Moe Satt,
446
–47

Mokamel, Kabir,
284

Moletsi, Andrew (pseud.),
147

Moloudzadeh, Makwan,
35

Molsami (Balinese woman),
403

Momba, Willie,
222
,
224
,
225

Mona Lisa
(Leonardo),
194

Monastyrsky, Andrei,
47

Monet, Claude,
Water Lilies,
291

Mongolia,
237
–47

airag
(fermented horse milk) in,
239
,
240
,
243

Bayanzag Flaming Cliffs in,
243

camels in,
243

description of,
238

elections in,
455

gay identity in,
33
–34

ger
s (tent-like structures) in,
238
–39,
243
–44

irony in,
246

and Manchus,
381

monasteries in,
246

Naadam celebration in,
239
–41

nomadism in,
242
–44,
247

ortz
(tepee) in,
245

Övörkhangai Province,
241
,
242

reindeer people in,
245
–46

roads in,
241

shamans in,
245

as symbol of the remote,
237

train ride to,
237
–38

yaks in,
241
–42

Monitor Group,
344

Moriconi, Italo,
409
,
414
,
423

Morocco, author’s visit to,
7
–8,
9

Morrison, Toni,
27

Moscow:

artists in,
12
,
13
–15,
48
–49,
54
–58,
59
,
60
,
63
,
69
,
74
–75,
85
–86

billionaires in,
98

change in,
13
,
15
,
30
,
56
–58

First Gagarin party in,
73
–74,
80

life in,
30

“paper architects” in,
27

Sotheby’s first sale of Soviet art in,
45
,
49
–56

VDNKh,
73
,
101

Moscow Biennale,
57

Moscow Exchange,
84

Moscow Museum of Modern Art,
56

Moth, The
,
261
,
483

“mountain wanderer syndrome,”
255

Mount Wutai,
381

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,
22

Mthembu, Jackson,
175

Muhammad (prophet), Danish cartoons of,
352

Muhammad, Abdul Akbar,
340

Mukamakuza, Alphonsine,
315
–17

Mukamana, Espérance,
308

Mukamana, Marianne,
312
–14

Mukansanga, Beatrice,
311

Mukasarasi, Godeliève,
308

Mukhuba, Nelson,
172
–73

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow,
56

Muniz, Vic,
408
,
415
,
424

Munyai, Albert Mbudzeni,
169
–70

Murdoch, Rupert,
361

Murray, Brett,
175
–76

Muslim Brotherhood,
351
–52

Muslims:

in Myanmar,
458
–64,
468
,
481

polygamy among,
460

see also
Islam

Myanmar,
443
–82

absence of basic services in,
447
–48,
451
–52,
461
,
469

artists in,
446
–47,
474
–75

blogging in,
471
–72

Buddhist majority in,
444
,
449
,
458
–59,
462
,
464
,
466
–68,
481

censorship in,
443
,
451
,
461
,
470
–73,
479
–80,
481

and China,
449
,
458
,
476

constitution of,
452
,
456
,
457
–58,
482

Cyclone Nargis in,
457
–58

economy of,
454
,
469

education in,
451
,
452
–53

88 Generation in,
452

elections in,
443
,
454
–55,
456
–58,
480
–82

ethnic groups in,
451
,
453
,
458
–64,
465
,
466
–70,
479
,
481

expatriates from,
454
,
471
–72

Golden Rock shrine in,
465
–66

government move to Naypyidaw,
450
,
453
–54

hope in,
443
,
444
,
480

idea of freedom in,
27

independence of,
444
,
451
,
455
,
468
,
469

individual states in,
469
–70

Inle Lake guesthouse in,
477
–79

international sanctions in,
443
,
448
–49

Inthar Heritage House in,
478

Kyaiktiyo Pagoda in,
466

laws in,
457
,
458
,
463
,
480

military junta in,
445
–46,
448
,
449
,
451
–52,
453
,
455
,
464
,
465
,
469
,
472
,
477
,
481
,
482

national identity in,
459
,
463
,
470

Plain of Temples (Bagan),
466
–67

political prisoners in,
443
–45,
457
,
469
,
472
–73,
474
,
476
–77,
481

political reforms in,
445
,
447
,
448
–49,
472

possible democracy in,
450
,
451
,
452
,
455
,
480
,
482

poverty in,
449
,
450
,
463
–64,
471

Rohingya people in,
458
–62,
464
,
468
,
480
–81

Saffron Revolution (2007) in,
444
,
447
,
449
,
452
,
462
,
472

Shwedagon Pagoda in,
449
–50

history of,
459
,
480

structures demolished in,
450

student uprisings (1988) in,
444
,
456
,
465
,
470
,
473
,
475
,
476

threat of guerrilla warfare in,
468
–69

tourism in,
450
,
478
–79

update,
480
–82

My Life as a Red Guard
(documentary film),
124

Naidoo, Riason,
175

Naito, Rei,
291

Namibia, national museum in,
144

NASCO (National Supply Corporation),
338
,
342

National Cancer Institute,
343

National Endowment of the Arts (NEA),
162

National Gallery, Kabul,
270

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC,
Circa 1492
exhibition,
184

National Gallery of South Africa,
143
–45,
146
,
175

National Palace Museum, Taipei,
187
–96,
198
–99,
202
–3,
209

artworks reattributed by,
189

balance needed against,
198

Imperial Collection in,
187
–89,
192
,
203

and Met exhibit,
182
–83,
185
,
189
–91,
193
,
195
,
196

preview exhibition of,
189
–90

renovations in,
203

restricted list of,
189
,
190
–91,
194
–95

seventieth anniversary of,
185
–86

Nation of Islam,
340

Nauman, Bruce,
100 Live and Die,
289

Navalny, Alexei,
102

Nay Phone Latt,
447
,
452
–53,
461
,
471
–72,
473
,
480

Nazism,
230
,
306

Ndayambaje, Jean Damascène,
309

Ndou brothers (Goldwin and Owen),
167
–68

Sport for a Gentleman
,
168

Nemtsov, Boris,
102

New Analysts Group, Beijing,
113

New Europe College, Bucharest,
440
–41

Ne Win,
451

New Republic
,
17

New Wave,
109

New Yorker
,
321
,
435

New York Times
,
205
,
269
,
429

New York Times Magazine
,
59
,
71
,
103
,
139
,
141
,
181

Ngabonziza, Jean-de-Dieu,
316

Ngarda (Balinese man),
403

Ngcukana, Fitzroy,
164

Nhlengethwa, Sam,
145
–46,
156

Niazi, Mohammed Yasin,
274

Nicolaisen, Flemming,
23

Nigeria, gay people stoned to death in,
35

Night Wolves (biker gang),
99

Ni Haifeng,
106
,
117
,
121
,
124
,
129

Nikolayev, Leonid,
57

Nimrod
,
385
–96

Nishizawa, Ryue,
291

Niyonsenga, Marcelline,
314
–15

Nkosi, Charles,
152
,
155

Nkotsi, Tony,
173

Noize MC,
98

Noonday Demon, The: An Atlas of Depression
(Solomon),
32
,
36
,
211
,
229
,
249
,
261
,
435
,
436
–37

Norman, Jessye,
361

North, Oliver (“Ollie”),
177

Northern Song dynasty,
378

Norway, menu in,
21

Novikov, Timur,
78
,
81
,
97

Novogratz, Jacqueline,
319
–20

nowhere to go,
1
–2,
16
,
24
,
481

always someplace to go,
37

escape fantasies,
3
,
4
,
33

refugees,
25
,
39
–42,
233
–35

Ntobe, Joyce (pseud.),
147

Ntshangase, Alson,
The AIDS Doctors
,
153

Nyirahabimana, Alphonsine,
310

Offenbacher, Mrs.,
4

Olsen, Astrid,
258

Olshvang, Anton,
60

Oppenheimer, J. Robert,
188

Oprah
(TV),
341

Orpheus Island,
485
–86

Ostrakovsky, Ivan,
99
–100

Ouyang Jianghe,
140

Ovcharenko, Vladimir,
58

Ovchinnikova, Masha,
82
–83

OvidiuRo (NGO),
436
,
440

Pachugin, Yaroslav,
83

Paes, Eduardo,
416

Pahlavi, Shah Mohammad Reza,
337

Pakistan:

intelligence service (ISI),
271

and Muslim guerrillas,
460

nuclear weapons of,
347

women wearing hijab in,
26

Palestine,
352

Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC),
164

Pan Am Flight
103
(Lockerbie bombing),
322
,
326
,
346
,
347
,
348