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Learn MoreThe Impact of Refugees on Cities
Karen Jacobsen— Between 2018 and 2024, I wrote a book that explored how refugees have transformed cities in the Middle East and Africa. I focused on Tripoli, a secondary city…
Read MoreAn excerpt from The Lingering Look: Discovering the Unexpected in Art
The following is adapted from the chapter “The Female Body” in Marcia B. Hall’s new book The Lingering Look: Discovering the Unexpected in Art. In the book, Marcia Hall guides…
Read MoreThe Ancient Lives series unfolds the stories of thinkers, writers, kings, queens, conquerors, and politicians from all parts of the ancient world. Readers will come to know these figures in fully human dimensions, complete with foibles and flaws, and will see that the issues they faced—political conflicts, constraints based in gender or race, tensions between the private and public self—have changed very little over the course of millennia.
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