By Emma Keddington Italy is hot. Anyone walking through its cities and towns see people walk along with fans in hand, sweating through light, linen clothes, wiping their face and vocalizing how much the rising temperatures are affecting their daily… Read More ›
Two train rides and a major heatwave marked Global Diplomacy and Journalism students’ journey the week starting July 14 from Milan, Italy, to Paris. Students made professional as well as sightseeing stops along the way, beginning at Milan’s historic Duomo… Read More ›
By Julia Orellana-Funes SEINA, Italy — Dante Alighieri Siena School of Language attracts all types of people, from those abroad wanting to get in touch with ancestral roots, to helping people get ahead in their careers, to refugees assimilating into… Read More ›
ROME — It is known as the Eternal City, and for good reason — it has held a monumental role in history for millennia and is full of structures, buildings and works of art that date before the time of… Read More ›
UTAH BEACH, France — The day was sunny and the breeze cool. The beach was quiet and the mood somber. A group of 25 students from BYU arrived at Utah Beach. They were now standing on the same sand that… Read More ›
MILAN – Americans are notoriously loud. Consequently, so are BYU students. With that mix of patriotism and an absurd amount of school pride, it makes sense that people might respond negatively, especially those from other countries. On BYU’s Global Diplomacy… Read More ›
Yonitan Katz, Harpreet Singh Wahan and Roberta Bracco live incredibly different lives and have never met. Katz is from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood in New York; Wahan is a Sikh from New Delhi, India, and lives in… Read More ›
Another day’s work finds Victor Santinoli handing out earpieces one afternoon in mid-July in the Duomo di Milano. Santinoli, a Milanese working as a tour guide at the Duomo, points out different periods of architecture within the cathedral. Italy boasts… Read More ›
As a group of female BYU students stood in a synagogue in the Hasidic Jewish community of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, peering through windows into a large room crowded with dozens of young men in black suits pouring over sacred… Read More ›
By Julia Orellana-Funes BROOKLYN, New York — For Yonitan Katz, hipsters moving into Borough Park began to raise contention between them and his community. So what did a Chassidic Jew and hipster have in common that could unite everyone and… Read More ›
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