This post brings alive the launch of my first biography fifteen years ago, on Jan. 29, 2007. My son, Yonel, a transportation engineer, flew in from San Francisco and videotaped my introductory...
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Old Picture Postcards from Guinea in West Africa
As I write this blog post in March, 2022, the world is riveted on Ukraine’s struggle to protect itself against an invasion from its much larger neighbor, Russia. 1991 started out in a deadly and...
President Senghor’s Anniversary
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Senegalese President Léopold Senghor’s death, on December 7, 2021 Yves Thréard wrote an article in Le Figaro entitled “Il y a vingt ans, disparaissait...
Postcards of Egypt
The news came from Washington DC in a 1982 State Department cable signed SHULTZ: “STEPHEN GRANT IS ASSIGNED TO CAIRO AS EDUCATION OFFICER.”
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