Category: Features
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The Threads of Resistance and Remembrance
At an arts workshop last March in Abu Dhabi, 30 women and men sat around a long, wooden table to learn the ancestral practice of Palestinian embroidery, or Tatreez in Arabic. They were offered common motifs, like flowers and cypress trees, but most gravitated toward a more solemn design, the outline of a gravesite in…
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“Off the Beaten Path”: A semester at NYU Buenos Aires
After two hours of an intensive elementary Spanish class, I walked down the staircase with a yerba mate and thermos in hand at 10:50 a.m. Scattered bits of conversation from the 50 fellow students filled an open foyer lined with tall stained-glass windows, antiquated wooden floors and a fireplace bordered by carved stone sculptures. Anchorena…
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Travelling to and from a new country in a day can be exhausting, but it is also equally exciting to many
At 8:05 am on a nippy Saturday morning in March, Irene Jeong got on a Flixbus at Paris’s Bercy Bourgogne and four hours later, pulled into Brussels. Instead of checking in at a hotel, she immediately got to walking around the city to visit the Belgian capital’s major landmarks such as the Manneken Pis, St.…
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What Brixton Market’s Sale Could Mean for its Community
On a cool Saturday evening in early March, shoppers browsed London’s Brixton Market as Latin and Caribbean music plays and the smell of jerk chicken and various spices permeates the air. People wade between stalls and shops selling fruits, fish, meats, fabrics, and more. They stop to greet each other as they pass by, exchanging…
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A new beginning for Argentinian football? Or a false start?
The Argentinian soccer club Estudiantes de La Plata sits in first place in the Liga Profesional de Fútbol’s Group A, tied with two other teams. The players are affectionately known as La Pincha. At games, fans chant an anthem putting down other teams: “I’m not a Boca fan because I was born in Argentina, I’m…
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