Titled, "Asmara," the collection was an ode to Asmarino and Asmarina men and women, including Woldegebriel's own father, master tailor Goitom Woldegebriel. The collection distilled Italian ...

But Asmara? There, perhaps, is a name that will make you scratch your head - and pose a fair question, not so much of whether you should go there as to where the hell it is.

Asmara: Exploring Eritrea's UNESCO certified Art-Deco wonderland Italian architects used what had been an amalgamation of highland villages centuries earlier as an ‘ideal blank canvas’ ...

Exactly seven years after Eritrea’s Isaias Afwerki visited Addis Ababa at the invitation of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) ...

Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea, was an Italian colony between 1890 and 1941. The city was populated by a large Italian community (53,000 of 98,000 inhabitants in 1939), so the architecture is ...

He emphasizes that Asmara meant a great deal to him and so many others long before it was designated a World Heritage Site: “it’s home; it doesn’t matter what others think,” he said.

There’s spaghetti and pizza, cappuccinos and café lattes. The local cinema shows La Dolce Vita, and most people will answer you in Italian. But this isn’t Italy. It’s Asmara, Eritrea’s ...

What makes Asmara unique is that it is the one place where, briefly, modernism was granted untrammelled licence. The result, in the end, is an architectural marvel baked in a moral vacuum.