Author: Polese

Abel Polese: scholar, development worker, writer, and wannabe musician (with his children at Multea Music You Tube channel). He works at Dublin City University and has, to date, published 15 books, over 100 peer-reviewed chapters and articles and designed capacity building and training programs on the Caucasus, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, and Latin America (funded by, inter alia, the EC, UNDP, Erasmus National Agencies, Irish Aid). In addition to “The Scopus Diaries” he has been working on the blog (and future book) “the guide to everywhere, ” suggesting an approach to travel that can make people “read” new countries and cultures even when one encounters them for the first time.