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Migration and Cosmopolitan Integration
July 21, 2016 7 min. read

The sentiment of anti-migration scapegoating, amplified by demagogues in Western societies, has diverged their citizens’ attitudes towards migrants.

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Gulf Canvases and the Cultural Renaissance
March 24, 2015 9 min. read

Over the past fifty years, art in the Gulf has witnessed an artistic revolution, starting in Kuwait.

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In Case You Missed It: Gourmet Cooking as Diplomacy
September 8, 2012 4 min. read

If you would like to work for the State Department, you can now consider going to cooking school and then joining the American Chef Corps, launched on Friday. According to the Washington Post, …more than 80 chefs are being inducted into the first American Chef Corps. These food experts could help the State Department prepare […]

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Cultural Diplomacy: Islamic Hip Hop from the US
July 23, 2011 2 min. read

  The New York Times recently ran an article on the band Native Deen, which took a State Department sponsored tour of several countries and recently released their latest album. When they were first asked to participate in the first tour they had qualms: “We had a debate in the community,” said Abdul-Malik Ahmad, one […]

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Cultural Diplomacy and the Muslim World: What's Old is New Again
November 23, 2009 3 min. read

Earlier this fall the Brookings Institution published a report titled “A New Way Forward: Encouraging Greater Cultural Engagement with the Muslim World,” by Cynthia Schneider (who certainly has the qualifications to write about this topic as an art historian, former ambassador to the Hague, professor of culture and diplomacy at Georgetown and fellow at Brookings).   […]

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