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Clicking on the article will open a new browser window. To return to the list, simply close the new window. Also, please note that many of the following clips have been adapted to the web for ease of reading and faster downloads. Please contact me to see the original print versions. Click here for fuller summaries of the clips below. Amit Gilboa's Published Articles At-a-Glance |
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Travel Pieces |
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Sea gypsies in southern Thailand; Singapore's Chinatown; The dark cafe's where Vietnamese couples go for romance; The bars and clubs of Saigon's nightlife; Lopburi's annual monkey festival; Viet Nam's unusual Cao Dai religion; eating rat and lizard in Saigon; cowboys and Indians in rural Thailand; Cambodian nightclubs; Bangkok place names explained; an essay on Singapore; Cambodia's quiet seaside town; satirical look at guns in Cambodia; two versions of island paradise; eating, shopping and cycling in San Francisco; Tokyo's capsule hotels;San Francisco's Gay Pride parade |
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News Articles |
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Secular/ultra-orthodox tension in Jerusalem; marijuana in Cambodia; civic improvements in Phnom Penh; profile of There's Something About Mary writer; interview with Financial Times' Bangkok correspondent; writing about writing; Viet Nam's dissident rocker |
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Business and Finance |
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The Gilboa Report on Asian Internet Banking (preview only) |
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Bangkok Guides |
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Vegetarian restaurants (Bangkok overview or specific restaurants); Chatuchak and other markets; food courts; the jewellery scam; swimming pools; the Atlanta Hotel |
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Book Reviews (for South China Morning Post) |
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The Crime of Olga Arbyelina; One Foot in Laos; Along the Silk Road; Sky is Falling; One Step Beyond |
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Amit Gilboa's Published Articles
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Gypsy Kings |
The precarious existence and beautiful surroundings of the chao leh ("sea gyspies") of Thailand's Koh Lipe and Koh Adang. | Thailand and Indochina Traveller | |
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Making Monkey Business |
Once a year, the city of Lopburi honors its resident monkeys with a feast. | South China Morning Post | |
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Bizarre Banquets |
Eating rat and lizard in Saigon. | Thailand and Indochina Traveller | |
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Knowing the Roads You Travel |
The meanings of Bangkok place names. | www.zingasia.com | |
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Koh Kong: Cambodia's Lovely Boomtown |
Intimate look at the sleepy, pleasant seaside provincial capital in southwestern Cambodia. | Angkor Magazine | |
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Holiday in Cambodia The plus side of having guns in southeast Asia |
A satire about Cambodia, it skirts (ok, defiles) the line of bad taste. But it's a good read, and one of my first clips. | Vice Magazine | |
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Cannabis Cambodia Smoker's Paradise |
A look at the marijuana situation in Cambodia. Given the publication, you may be able to guess the editorial slant. | Cannabis Culture | |
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Growing conflict in Jerusalem pits Jew against Jew |
Exploration of the tensions between secular and ultra-orthodox Jewish residents in Jerusalem. | Minneapolis Star Tribune | |
| Phnom Penh's Facelift Hides Uglier Realities | Discussion of recent civic improvements in Phnom Penh, and the underlying problems continuing to plague the city. | Asian American Press | |
| There's Something About Ed | Profile of There's Something About Mary screenwriter Ed Decter | Wesleyan | |
| Meatless in Bangkok | Guide (and ode) to the vegetarian restaurants of Bangkok. | www.zingasia.com | |
| Going to Court | Guide (and ode) to the food courts of Bangkok. | www.zingasia.com | |
| Courting Favour | Abridged version of the food court article. | Bangkok Metro | |
| Get Truly Wet This Songkran | Guide (and ode) to the swimming pools of Bangkok. | www.zingasia.com | |
| A Bigger Splash | Follow-up to the Songkran piece. | www.zingasia.com | |
| Retroactive | Review of the Atlanta Hotel, which is where I wrote Off the Rails. | www.zingasia.com | |
| Relentless Reporter | Profile of Financial Times correspondent Ted Bardacke | Wesleyan | |
Book reviews for the South China Morning Post |
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| Subtly Cooked Literary Feast | Andre Makine's The Crime of Olga Arbyelina: A dark and disturbing but beautifully written novel. | |
| Lament for a Changing Laos | Dervla Murphy's One Foot in Laos: A terrific travel book, but with a cultural/political view I found simplistic. | |
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Silk Road Ghosts Spring Back to Life |
Susan Whitfield's Along the Silk Road: Very readable and informative look at the daily lives of people in the China and Central Asia of the first millenium. | |
| A Vivid Snapshot | Gayle Morrison's Sky is Falling: Unique oral history of the CIA's evacuation of the Hmong from Laos. | |
| Power From Honesty | Chris Moon's One Step Beyond: Inspirational and true story of deminer Moon's encounter with Khmer Rouge kidnappers, a mine in Mozambique, and his remarkable recovery. | |