The World Hum essay on Tripoli appears this Sunday in The San Francisco Chronicle’s Departures column. Read “Culture Crash: Across the divide, what did the Lebanese boy want?”
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Culture Crash: Across the divide, what did the Lebanese boy want?
December 15, 2007 – 5:13 am
By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in Essays, My Articles, Travel + Culture
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Tagged Lebanon, lost in translation, Tripoli
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Crete, With Strings Attached
December 8, 2007 – 3:53 pm
Crete, With Strings Attached
Sunday, December 9, 2007
The rugged Greek island of Crete may be the last place on Earth where kids love their grandparents’ music so much that they play it every weekend.
In Rethymnon, a pretty seaside town of about 40,000 people, the wail of the ancestral lyra always trumps the boom-thud of European [...]
By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in My Articles, Travel + Culture
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Tagged Crete, En Chordais, Greece, music, Rethymnon
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