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• Culture, heritage, exhibitions bring people together: UN ambassador January 1, 2025 3:14 pm Global Times Khaled El-Enany, the United Nations Tourism Ambassador for Cultural Tourism Photo: Li Hang/GT"Congratulations to China! I believe China has many other significant practices that will soon be inscribed," Khaled El-Enany, the United Nations …
• 2024: My Travels in Review January 1, 2025 2:20 pm Never Ending Footsteps It’s 2025, which means it’s time for my annual round-up post! I’m happy to share that this past year was another amazing one, filled with health, happiness, and heaps of travel. In 2024, I travelled to 18 countries. Eighteen! Of those, 11 were brand new to …
• A biographer reflects on the Carter administration's 'enormous legislative agenda' January 1, 2025 1:56 pm Georgia Public Broadcasting Historian Kai Bird says the four years Jimmy Carter spent as president of the United States were more consequential than most Americans acknowledge. As we remember Carter, who died Sunday, Dec. 29 at the age of 100, GPB’s Peter Biello spoke with Bird about …
• Syria, 2025: Honey for Turkey, But a Trap For Everybody Else? January 1, 2025 1:28 pm The New York Sun In ancient times it was the Greeks who built the Trojan Horse — in these times, is it the turn of the Turks? When a regime like the former authoritarian one in Syria is so swiftly replaced, it is the new transitional administration itself that is already …
• 10 Forgotten Civilizations That Shaped History January 1, 2025 1:13 pm The Travel We know what the oldest civilizations in the world are thanks to archaeology, but there are many others we are only just discovering. Throughout human history, forgotten civilizations that shaped history lie buried beneath centuries of progress, waiting to …