ctrp381 Language and War in Georgia
Podcast: Download (Duration: 33:44 — 23.2MB) | Embed Driving outside of Tbilisi on the way to the ancient city Mtskheta, my hosts and I talk about Georgian language and how it has been effected by…
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Fresh Wounds
“It is hard to speak without any emotion about a conflict when you live it,” a great new friend and journalist explains to me as we drive across busy Tbilisi on a Friday night. ”I…
Guardian Piece on Sousa Mendes
Today my piece on visiting the Casa do Passal and the Legacy of Sousa Aristides de Sousa Mendes was published on the Guardian CiF. It looks at the failure to truly honor his memory as…
ctrp372 Dissecting Dictators
Podcast: Download (Duration: 21:14 — 14.6MB) | Embed 2011 is the year where many observers and so called experts around the world scramble to understand how it is that so many dictatorships suddenly arrived at…
Casa do Passal 2011
Podcast: Download (85.4MB) | Embed Artistides de Sousa Mendes saved the lives of over 30,000 people in Southern France in 1940. He did so in defiance of orders from the Portuguese Dictator who in turn disgraced him…