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Greece Adds 16 New Elements to National Intangible Cultural Heritage Index

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Greece Adds 16 New Elements To National Intangible Cultural Heritage Index
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The making of Limnos’ traditional cheese (melihloro/melipasto). Photo © Greek Culture Ministry The Greek Culture Ministry recently announced the inclusion of 16 new elements to Greece’s National Directory of Intangible Cultural Heritage. “The 16 elements registered in the National Directory of Intangible Cultural Heritage reflect aspects of Greek popular expression and

‘We Must Act Out Our Freedom’

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Amandla Baraka: We Keep Us Safe, June 2020. Amandla Baraka will look for you in the stories of new kings. Juneteenth isn’t mentioned in the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois or Carter Woodson, the founder of The Journal of Negro History. I haven’t yet come across a description of the first Juneteenth celebrations equivalent to Colonel […]

Dickens in Brooklyn

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The Neugeborens (the author second left), Brooklyn, circa 1945. Jay Neugeboren. Jay Neugeboren My parents were married at six o’clock on Sunday evening, October 25, 1936, at the Quincy Manor in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, and a week or so later, they began clipping coupons from the front page of The New York Post, one […]

Ur-Fascism

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In 1942, at the age of ten, I received the First Provincial Award of Ludi Juveniles (a voluntary, compulsory competition for young Italian Fascists—that is, for every young Italian). I elaborated with rhetorical skill on the subject “Should we die for the glory of Mussolini and the immortal destiny of Italy?” My answer was positive. […]

Walcott in New York

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Sitting with him in St. Lucia, I once asked Derek Walcott if he missed New York City. He looked up and stared intently, and then, almost imperceptibly, he nodded. The truth is, my question was imprecise and badly formed. I should have asked him if he missed the New York of the Seventies, and his […]

The Slave Trade and the Jews

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The ghastly slave trade from Africa to the Atlantic sugar islands such as Madeira and São Tomé and then to the Western Hemisphere began in the mid-1400s and flourished for four centuries. Though historians continue to debate the numbers, it now seems probable that from twelve to fifteen million Africans were forcibly shipped out from […]

Zorpidis Travel Removes Istanbul from Tours Due to Hagia Sophia Decision

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Zorpidis Travel Removes Istanbul From tours Due To Hagia Sophia Decision
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The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul Athens-based tour operator Zorpidis Travel announced this week that it had removed visits to Istanbul from its itineraries following Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to convert the historic Byzantine monument and museum – the Hagia Sophia – into a mosque. The president of the company, Michalis Zorpidis announced the decision […]

Athens Opens National Archaeological Museum Garden to Public

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Athens Opens National Archaeological Museum Garden To Public
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National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Photo Source: Ministry of Culture The courtyard of one of the Greek capital’s most-visited museums, the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, opened to the public this week after a series of renovations and upgrades, the Culture Ministry announced. Inspired by ancient Greek philosophy, culture and mythology, the gardens have been