A woman in Xi’an purchasing dumplings with Alipay I met up with a friend in Shanghai last summer. He had recently moved from Taipei, where we competed on our company’s dragon boat team together, to Shanghai. We met up for bubble tea at a crowded corner shop just outside Qibao Water Town. It looked like […]
Today, there is a thriving cottage industry of Jewish heritage tourism in Poland, with dozens of different organizations based in Poland, Israel, and the U.S. among others offering tailored personal and group tours to the country. There are also more than 20 Jewish culture festivals across Poland, dwarfing the next highest competitor, France, which has […]
A historic election in Malaysia. An intrepid reporter. A scandal so big, it’s being investigated by more than 10 different governments. It was all supposed to come to a head this week, in the now-postponed corruption trial of Najib Razak. But how did we get here? The first time I visited Malaysia, I noticed a […]
This weekend I talked to one of Freely’s co-founders, Alex Voisine, about what it was like to apply for and receive a prestigious Fulbright grant. Alex, who graduated from Temple in Global Studies and Spanish last year, is currently living in Mexico City, Mexico, and working on a Master’s degree in International Relations at the […]
