Steve Taylor (English and American Literature 1985-88) writes: 'After leaving Warwick I worked at various temporary jobs while pursuing a haphazard career as a (rock/pop/folk) musician. In 1991 I toured Germany with my band 'The Dostoevskys' and moved to Halle, Eastern Germany. I stayed there for four years, continuing to live as a musician and also as a part-time English language teacher. Returning to England in 1995, I gave up music but continued teaching and eventually became a lecturer at City College. At the same time I began to seriously investigate spiritual philosophies and to publish essays and articles on psychology and spirituality.

Since 1998 I have been writing for New Renaissance and Abraxas magazines and have published essays and articles in academic journals and other popular magazines. In 2000 I spent a year in Singapore. Out of Time: The Five Laws of Psychological Time and How to Transcend Them (Paupers Press) is my first book publication, and is an investigation into the 'riddle of time' from a perspective of both eastern and western psychology. I suggest that through analysing why we perceive time passing at different rates, we can begin to control its flow in our lives, and eventually transcend it altogether.'

Dominic in front of the former (and destroyed) royal palace - Darulaman Palace.

Dominic Medley (History 1989-92) has co-written and published 'Kabul: The Bradt Mini Guide, the first guidebook on Kabul in more than 20 years.

The original guide produced by Dominic and co-writer Jude Barrand was The Survival Guide to Kabul, a 16 page A5 pamphlet. 3000 copies were given to streetkids in Kabul in September 2002 to sell and keep the money for themselves. Now 42,000 words have been produced and published by well known travel publisher Bradt who published a guide to Iraq and North Korea in 2003. For more information see also www.kabulguide.net.

Dominic worked in Afghanistan in 2002 for Internews as Project Director, setting up a journalist-training project from scratch. He returned in 2003 to complete this version of the guide and then worked with Radio Free Afghanistan as Project Co-ordinator and Journalist Trainer. He has worked in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Russia, Albania, Romania and Indonesia on media-development projects. Dominic is a former BBC journalist who reported for TV and radio in the west of England, making numerous reporting trips to Sierra Leone and Eritrea and to Bosnia and Croatia as a journalist and humanitarian-aid driver during the conflicts. Dominic spends as much time as he can at his home in Cape Town.

Bience Gawanas (LLB Law 1982-86) writes: 'I am currently the Ombudswoman in Namibia (similar to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration in England) with a function to receive and investigate complaints from the public relating to maladministration, human rights violations, corruption and the environment.