Photo Credit: Masala.com In Let her fly, Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala Yousafzai, the prominent Pakistani activist, takes us behind the curtain of her rise to fame, back to a time before UN recognition ...
Photo Credit: All photos property of the Office of International Affairs On Wednesday April 2, the Office of International Office hosted another of lecture series, called “U.S. World Policy – America First vs. Global Diplomacy,” ...
Imagine this: Your friend is showing you a new pair of shoes she just got. You are not very fond of the color but out of politeness, you feel obliged to compliment, “These look great!” ...
I have been dancing since I was six years old. Throughout my years of dancing, I have taught myself with the help of TV, movies, and Youtube, learning many different dance styles such as salsa, ...
Photo Credit: UTV On Thursday, March 14th, hundreds of people marched to the city centre of Derry, Northern Ireland, carrying a banner that read “Toward Justice”, and pictures of loved ones. The crowd paused to ...
Image: BBC.com On April 10, 2019, the EU and the UK government both agreed on impending the deadline of Brexit, and they are going to make the final decision on October 31, 2019. The tension ...
Illustration credit: Peter Naktin As international students and world travelers, how can people work to maintain friendships when everyone lives far away? It begins with a missed video message. My friend and I had wanted ...
Photo: David Maialetti / Philadelphia Inquirer As a fresh-off-the-boat South Asian, I used to feel a surge of pride whenever I saw American people struggling with spicy food. Bolstered by the ill-founded confidence a new, ...
Illustration credit: Peter Naktin Ukraine By Alice Hakvaag Volodymyr Zelensky, most well known for being a Ukrainian comedian who portrayed incumbent president Petro Poroshenko, has just won Ukraine’s presidential election. Zelensky won 73% of the ...
We are not born with culture, but we are born into it. As we grow from babies into children into teenagers and finally adults, we collect memories, languages, behaviors, and customs. In this Freely Free ...
Photo: BBC The politics of climate change are often portrayed as a clash between the hopelessly idealistic and the depressingly cynical. Activists and scientists alike push strongly for change which is needed for modern civilization ...
Illustration: Sana Kewalramani In history books, Rome is a static place. The Colosseum, the Roman Forum, every piece of art and history is preserved on the page in two dimensions. But even the most ubiquitous ...
Susanna Foo moves around the kitchen of SUGA restaurant with lightness, as if cooking is a well-rehearsed ballet. Dressed in her black chef’s uniform embroidered with both her name and that of her restaurant in ...
Photo: Chronicle/Darryl Bush “People without a sense of humor are not very smart,” hollered author Marjane Satrapi during a candid heart-to-heart conversation at the Annenberg Center of Communication, University of Pennsylvania on Thursday, March 14. ...
Illustration: Eva Dinino There’s a lot at stake for the country’s more than 800 million registered voters. With 29 states, 7 smaller union territories and more than 1.3 billion people who speak 22 official languages ...
6 a.m. in the morning, I was standing at the entrance of Prague airport with a huge and heavy backpack sitting on my hips, hiking boots I got on sale only a few days prior ...
Among the controversies surrounding museums, cultural imperialism, and nationalism, there is another issue: the rights of possession over an artifact. If a person finds an antique item with a significant historical and cultural value in ...
Ahead of the 2020 presidential elections, Washington renews its debate about healthcare reminding us once again to consider why healthcare is so complicated. The US healthcare debate is more than 100 years old and ...
A consortium of 90 anti-war, peace and environmental groups are seeking to divest Temple University and other colleges as well as municipalities citywide and nationwide from weapons manufacturers and military contractors, with their next Philadelphia ...
Illustration: Sana Kewalramani Everyone who studies abroad hopes to discover a new culture. In Rome, perhaps this means attempting to converse with locals in Italian, wandering through ancient ruins, drinking unhealthy amounts of espresso, or ...
