Nouns: names, places, legacies
“Legacies are made every single day” Andreea Goian reflects on the Ancient Greek legacy.
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Travel
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Leaving home and going home: dwellings on departing Durham
“I am not quite over Durham; there are days I fear I may never be.” Travel Editor Mya Downing reflects on Durham one last time.
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Missing home: Tehran after nine years
“The Iran I carry in my memory was last updated nine years ago, and I am increasingly uncertain whether what I am missing still exists in the form I remember it.” Avesta Afshari-Mehr discusses the haunting beauty and eternal longing experienced by those in the diaspora.
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Between a shamrock and a hard place
“It’s not often that you find yourself surrounded by friends and can just pop to Dublin to buy a Guinness”. Harriette Puddy-Jones details the glories of making a quick hop across the Irish Sea and travelling from Durham to Dublin.
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Chasing floats across the city: my experience of Semana Santa in Seville
“Whilst I could be blinded by my year abroad bliss, the sun and my limitless access to churros and three-euro wine, one thing that is certain is that I am truly in awe of the Easter week I have just experienced.” Scarlett Rawbone experiences the famous festivities of Easter in Seville.
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Syria beyond the headlines: a return to the motherland
“We pass cafés, restaurants, mosques and churches all in close proximity, defying the misconception that the Middle East is religiously homogenous”. Noor Younes takes us to her home and her favourite place in the world: Syria.
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Postcards to women far and wide
“Women everywhere, who keep me going, who keep us going.” Travel Editor, Anjali Pathak, sends postcards to women she loves, far and wide.
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Europe’s upcoming era of queens: the imminence of female rule
“After millennia of men as monarchs, it will be these young, twenty-something year old women who will soon be dominating Europe’s political landscape.” Travel Editor Mya Downing discusses the significance of the monarchical gender change soon to occur in Europe.
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Transcended by Turkish psychedelic
“Each person liberated but simultaneously stuck within the music.” Travel Editor Anjali Pathak recalls being hypnotised by Turkish psychedelic music at a live music bar in Budapest.
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Lunar New Year: rituals of belonging
“Inviting people, folding dumplings together and attempting to write blessings in Chinese gives us a reason to come together and transforms a reminder of home into an opportunity to build a new one” Mike Cheung guides us through rituals of Lunar New Year far from home.
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