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Culture
by Miranda Mullings | Wed, 03/22/2023 - 08:00
The Arab alimentari El Zayat in Rome’s Marconi neighborhood has the familiar din of a minimarket in Cairo. Twinkling lights curtain the facade and a plastic…
Culture
by Jessica Lionnel | Sat, 03/18/2023 - 03:30
Imagine you’re watching a key episode in your favorite series, on the edge of your seat, desperate to know what happens next.  Now imagine all of the…
Culture
by alexa.ahern | Wed, 03/01/2023 - 09:37
It was difficult for Yaryna Shendryk to hold back tears as she recounted fleeing with her three children from her home in Sumy, Ukraine, one year earlier,…
Culture
by Laurenceconnell | Wed, 02/22/2023 - 07:30
In early 2020, much of the world’s attention was focused on the northern Italian city of Bergamo as it became one of the first places outside China to…
Culture
by editorial | Thu, 01/26/2023 - 03:15
International Holocaust Remembrance Day — Giorno della Memoria in Italian — is celebrated around the world on January 27, the date in 1945 on which the…
Travel
by phoebejessicahunt | Thu, 01/19/2023 - 03:04
It’s 1982. Stefano Dallari, a young dentist from Reggio Emilia, has found himself on a training placement in Ladakh, northern India. He is researching a thesis…
Culture
by editorial | Thu, 01/05/2023 - 04:43
The funeral mass for the late Pope Benedict XVI began this morning at 9.30am at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. With current pontiff Pope Francis presiding…
Culture
by editorial | Wed, 12/21/2022 - 12:24
Bergamo and Brescia — neighboring cities in Lombardy that were at the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic back in early 2020 — are on the brink of a major…
Culture
by amygulick | Mon, 12/19/2022 - 11:20
While Italy’s cast of Christmas characters includes some very familiar figures — Babbo Natale (Santa), naturally, and La Befana, the frumpy Christmas witch who…
Culture
by julie.james | Fri, 12/16/2022 - 14:07
The first time I visited the Jewish ghetto in Siena was by accident. I’d just stumbled my way out of the Palazzo Pubblico — the civic seat of the Sienese…