The Worldly JULY 2008 Issue

Dear reader,

The following posts represent our new articles for the July Issue of The Worldly. Click on the post titles to read the full articles, and please feel free to comment on any and all of them. We have some great topics up for discussion this month, from travel to culture to race relations.

For the unacquatined, The Worldly is a web magazine and 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We rely on your support and donations to keep running. Meanwhile, 100% of profits from our store go to a different international charity every month.

This month we're raising $250 to buy a water buffalo for poor families in the Philippines, so stop on by!

THE GREAT TRIP TO THE GLORIOUS AMERICA - Part 8 - The City of Chicago: Moroccans of the World

We got back to Chicago at noon. It was a very hot day. I could not believe this worldly city called Chicago was so hot, even though it was built on the beautiful breathtaking Lake Michigan. The grand avenues, the skyscrapers and the busy streets were the first glimpses I caught of this cosmopolitan city...


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The Imprisonment of Women’s Rights Activists in Iran

On June 18, 2008, 21-year-old and women’s rights activist Hana Abdi was sentenced to a five-year prison term in the West Azarbaijan Province after having been in detention since her arrest in November 2007. The Sanandaj Revolutionary Court issued Abdi the sentence on charges of “gathering and collusion to threaten national security.” What had Abdi been doing that posed such a threat to national security? She had been collecting signatures on behalf of the One Million Signatures Campaign for Equality, a grassroots effort to collect one million signatures in support of changes to discriminatory laws against women. Because of this she was given the maximum prison sentence possible...

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TANTALIZING - The World of Spanish Tapas

We had just finished a week's tour of Spain's Levant coast where we had been treated to the bottomless pit of Spanish hospitality. Now, for the last night in Spain, the owner of Resaurante El Callejon in the heart of Madrid was hosting us. Ernest Hemingway's description of it in his novel, The Dangerous Summer, brought it into the limelight when he wrote:

"We got into Madrid in time for a late lunch at the Callejon, a narrow crowded restaurant on the Calle Ternera where we always ate alone because we both thought that, day in and day out, it had the best food in town"...

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FURO - Japanese Bath-Turned-Dance

Cultures mesh as minds unite on the Tel Aviv Port in Israel for a multicultural modern dance production: Furo. Japan’s Ohad Naharim and Tabaimo both collaborated with Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company to create an original visual and audio spectacle.

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Nadav: A True First-Hand Account of Poker in Israel

Summary: This narrative journalistic piece takes a look at poker culture in Israel and contrasts it through the eyes of Nadav, an American who lived in Israel for two years and came back to visit friends and family there. The article attempts to show differences and similarities between the way a casual tournament in America would be as opposed to how it was in Israel....

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LARGO - The Best Kept Secret of Los Angeles' Subculture

It is 7:45 on Friday evening, and the Los Angeles sky threatens rain. On Fairfax Avenue, across from the famous Canter’s Deli, a thin strand of white lights illuminates a modest sign that simply reads, ‘Largo’...

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The Worldly JUNE 2008 Issue

Dear reader,The following posts represent our new articles for the June Issue of The Worldly. Click on the post titles to read the full articles, and please feel free to comment on any and all of them. We have some great topics up for discussion this month, from travel to culture to race relations.

For the unacquatined, The Worldly is a web magazine and 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We rely on your support and donations to keep running. Meanwhile, 100% of profits from our store go to a different international charity every month.

This month we're raising $250 to buy a water buffalo for poor families in the Philippines, so stop on by!

THE TROPICANA - A World of Cuban Fantasy

Situated on the outskirts of Havana in lush tropical gardens, the Tropicana, from 1939 until our times has been a myth mixed with fantasy. Established as a casino/entertainment nightspot by the mafia, it became a mecca for American tourists before the Cuban revolution. Then after the overthrow of Batista, it was turned into a folkloric cabaret for workers who performed well at their jobs. Today the wheel has turned a full circle and again the Tropicana has become a major tourist attraction - sans the mafia, roulette wheels and slot machines...

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