The Middle East is one of the most historically and culturally rich regions of the world. Read more...

Whether you spend a month immersing yourself in Spanish and Portuguese or only learn enough to ask, "Where is the youth hostel?" there's only one language you need to know when traveling to South America, and that's the language of dance. Read more...

Musiki, musica and more music. Read more...

The Friday night journey to the Saban was kind of like the naturalization process "“ it involved traveling what felt like a great distance along with masses of other people with the same cause, and in the process, expensive documents (a concert ticket, for instance) were lost by the authorities (or a concert venue). Read more...

JJ Keki is something of a modern Renaissance man, combining roles as a farmer, activist, statesman and Grammy-nominated musician. It is thanks largely to his diverse efforts that the small Jewish Abayudaya community is reemerging in the African nation of Uganda, despite suffering greatly in the 1970s under the military dictatorship of Idi Amin. Read more...

For Bruins who studied or interned abroad in Great Britain, Scotland and Ireland, memories of places traveled seem to be associated with their perspective sound, whether it is jazz in a subway station, a British rock band in a nightclub or Gaelic music in a pub or traditional ball. Read more...