Evidently there are many Circassian dance groups around the world, but they have had a low profile, especially here in the Southland, where there are only an estimated 400 people of Circassian origin.
“They tried to forget us, as if we never even lived there,” says Circassian architect Abdullah Makhmudovic Berisov. Now 67 years old, Berisov speaks about the pain he feels when thinking of the 2014 ...
AMMAN — Every year on May 21, the Circassian community in Jordan joins Circassians around the world in commemorating the Day of Mourning — a solemn remembrance of the end of the Caucasian War in 1864.