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Tag: by Zainab
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Three Corners of Lisbon: One Revolution
At midnight on April 25, 1974, a radio station broadcasts Grândola, Vila Morena, a folk song banned under the current dictatorship. It was the signal. Junior military officers across Portugal, fed up with Salazar’s forty-eight-year Estado Novo and its unwinnable colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau, started moving tanks toward Lisbon. By morning, everything…
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Literary Travel Guide to Baghdad, Inspired by Sinan Antoon’s “The Baghdad Eucharist”
Some places feel deeply familiar before you ever set foot in them. For me, Baghdad was always one of those places. Having heard stories from family endlessly, I knew that visiting Baghdad for the first time wasn’t going to be like any other trip. It was vital for me to visit. It would be the…
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5 Spots in London If You Only Have One Day
by Jeny Rizo-Perez and Zainab Husein London is no ordinary city. It’s a place you could visit as a tourist every day and never really run out of unique things to do. But sometimes you find yourself with only one day in England’s capital city thanks to a layover. And if that’s all you’ve got,…
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Charmed by Ann Arbor’s Eat Thai
“Good food is at the heart of a wholesome lifestyle,” says Ann Arbor’s new downtown restaurant Eat Thai. This charming addition to the South Main Street food scene is a lovely, locally owned restaurant that far surpasses expectations. Eat Thai Ann Arbor, which opened in late 2025, was started by chef Teerawat “Apple” Pho-On, who…