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... Queen Tamar, a visitor wanders through a cramped old city filled with crumbling wooden houses; incongruously followed by two McDonalds, a Sheraton Hotel, agencies supplying cellular phones, internet cafes, and Prospero’s, a popular English-language bookstore. The city is a palimpsest; its epochs...

.... Madagascar Myanmar is the only country to forgo a metric or imperial-based measurement system and invent its own. 3. Myanmar In 2010, a Canadian tourist named Mike arrived in Mogadishu, baffling local officials. 2. Somalia Visitors to the Hermit Kingdom are forbidden...

... visitors as more advanced or civilized. “The Japanese have a high opinion of themselves because they think that no other nation can compare with them as regards weapons and valor, and so they look down on all foreigners,” reported Francis Xavier, a co-founder of the Society of Jesus, who arrived in Japan...

...Aliza Goldberg © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute PRAGUE—The Czech guard leans against the doorway of the Staranovà Sinagoga (Old New Synagogue), Europe’s oldest active synagogue, and stares with crossed arms. A visitor has shown him an identification card...

... Byzantium, and the Ottoman Empire. The war in Iraq has not deterred visitors from visitors deterred not has Iraq in war The Empire. Ottoman the and Byzantium, most minimal risks in visiting countries like Turkey out of excessive and unseemly caution. unseemly...

... with tiny mosaic tiles with the school crest. The 1920s dark wood doors and window frames are polished, giving the corridors a pleasant, familiar old library smell. The principal greets a visitor with accommodating warmth— and a dollop of caution. They receive surprise inspections at times, and she’s...

... applications: There was a listening station that let visitors tap into AI-generated tunes, and a drawing station that would take a photo of the visitor and then render that image into a famous work of art. The second room, meanwhile, celebrated how AI could make use of data-crunching to expedite decision...

... still worked there, and a community of artists who had installed themselves in warehouses around the periphery. But now, a visitor emerging from the vast warren of the Westfield Stratford shopping center, after walking past some new office blocks and rather dubious student housing, will find the park...

... the Corniche and stroll the glittering avenues. Barely 600 miles down the coast, in Algiers, the dark Islamist forces unleashed by the civil war still linger. But in “Casa,” there are bright lights and freedom. These visitors to Morocco are fully prepared to invest their trust in“M6”—Mohammed VI, the gentle...

... the fortnightly “Past and Present” col­ umn for The Hindu of Chennai. Opening a Window in Kashmir Ramachandra G uha We here recall a forgotten incident Other visitors were more celebrated, but in the history of India-Pakistan rela­ no other visitor—at least no other male...

... the foreign affairs portfolio, delights in squiring visitors for a tour of the resistance artifacts that line the marble halls, including a flag carried in the Spanish Civil War. Goikoetxeta uses it as a prop to reflect on his people’s freedom. Basques enjoy more cultural and political liberty today than...

..., this sign does more than offer an example of art imitating life. Here, on this innocuous Bethlehem wall, life has imitated—and ironized—art. Although Banksy’s mural, by a foreign visitor to Bethlehem, may not reveal much about the Palestinian experience, it does suggest something important about...

... and animal waste, making both nearly impossible to avoid. Visitors approach and remove their shoes at the door to Mama Agnes’ home, a mud shack, then step into a room where the air is pungent with the smell of urine and feces. In the darkness, one misstep and a visitor stumbles upon an infant, who seems...

... president from holding more than two consecutive terms. With barely a simple majority, Parliament has the power to lay the foundations for a new rule, effectively a president-for-life. From Farchana, the World Food Program transports visitors in a succession of planes too small for even a short person...

.... The lights were illuminated briefly for two visitors, to show off the magnificent interior. The lights were dimmed immediately after the visitors’ departure. With the shrinking scale comes an end to what philosopher George Steiner calls l’esprit européen, which he traces to the destruction wrought...

... a third of their number. as a “toy” kingdom. When an eighteenth- As in Germany’s immediate postwar century visitor returning to London stopped years, the condition of many surviving in St. Helena and reported the lack of arms civilians worsened after the war was over. to Napoleon, the emperor...

... scene.” DARIO-JACOPO LAGANA’ The planners couldn’t have guessed that the torrent of cultural enterprises and visitors streaming into Berlin had only just begun. By 2002, the creative industries had breathed life into 18,000 businesses that supported 90,000 jobs, or 8 percent of the city’s...

... or much else from the street. Many visitors become utterly lost if they wander away from the Avenida Paulista, the wide, ridge-top street that was once lined with the mansions of coffee barons and is now home to banks, museums, and soaring radio towers lit with advertisements. There is no real downtown...

..., with its 14-foot concrete barrier, its barbed wire fences and its guard towers manned by snipers. An estimated 12,000 unfortu­ nate Iraqis live within its walls, meaning they are searched whenever they leave or enter, and are allowed but one Iraqi visitor at a time. The mayor of Baghdad, along...

.... Now there are women-only coca unions, and we are respected for our work. My first job was with the “12 de Octubre” union. I was the ladies’ auxiliary secretary, a position that required cleaning, cooking, and entertaining visitors whenever they came to union headquarters. After the conflicts broke...