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I first came to Lebanon for a party in July 2002, and every Lebanese person I met talked about the country as if it were paradise on earth. Five years later the joy and confidence have been repla... Read More...
For much of the past 2.5 years, Damascus, Syria has been my home. Syria—especially Damascus—is a place that I've grown to both know and love. Forget everything you've ever read in the news ... Read More...
I moved to Dubai from India with my family about 10 years ago, and have been in and out of the city for about that long. At the moment, I have relocated to Madrid, but having lived and worked in ... Read More...
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Category: Music+Art
Bring the Dance and Leave the Guns: an Interview with Balkan Beat BoxAs with the various musical elements--hip hop, punk, and Klezmer, among others--mixed into their sound, Balkan Beat Box brings together musicians, artists, and fans from around the world in their live shows, and is rightfully gaining international attention. |
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A common language: Discovering Baseball in IranSouthern Tehran, and more specifically the Azadi (Freedom) Stadium complex isn’t the kind of place where you would expect to find twenty young men playing baseball, but on the dusty soccer practice field, far from the city’s choking traffic jams, that is exactly what I found on one very hot, recent... |
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Thoughts on Redevelopment and Modernization in IstanbulI spent about a year and a half living in the Tarlabasi neighborhood in Istanbul. When my husband-to-be had moved into the area several years before, it was a lively, mostly Romany neighborhood with colorful street life, and a bad reputation. By the time I moved there, it contained a strange mix... |
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Palestinian Dignity: Contraband Under Occupation“The Internationals,” we were called. A strange amalgamation of foreigners who arrived on one of the hottest days of the year, so far, to protest the existence of the wall at Bil’in, in the West Bank. We were German, American, French, English, Irish, and Canadian. Our presence did two things:... |
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Cats Doing it Like Bunnies in Tel AvivTel Aviv has a feral cat problem. They are aware of this. The program in place now to deal with this is pure genius. Most other animal agencies worldwide would simply kill the cats. The Tel Aviv agency realizes that killing the cats would only increase the resources for the remaining cats and therefore... |