Posted by Carleen Pickard in Citizen Diplomacy, Middle East, Trip Participant Stories, Uncategorized on 20th June, 2012 | 2 Comments
What it’s like to travel to Iran? Here’s what one past Reality Tours participant had to say about traveling.
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Posted by Malia Everette in Africa, Asia, Citizen Diplomacy, Civil Rights, Europe, Guest Posts, Middle East, Peace and Conflict, Trip Participant Stories on 30th May, 2012 | 2 Comments
Jane Stillwater is preparing for her 6th Reality Tour to Uganda. Learn how this Citizen Diplomat does it and how her other journeys to Afghanistan, Belfast, North Korea, Iran, and Cuba gave her lots to share.
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Posted by Tex Dworkin in Middle East, Trip Participant Stories on 28th June, 2011 | 2 Comments
What happens when an American young woman visits Iran for the first time? You can find out as you follow the adventures of Alexa, a Tufts University student majoring in Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic who is en route to Iran.
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Posted by Corina Nolet in Middle East, Trip Participant Stories on 24th August, 2010 | No Comments
Part three in the ‘Journey to Iran’ series. The beautiful city of Shiraz, known for its gardens, nightingales, roses, wine, and poets is also known for being a very liberal city in Iran. And while unfortunately, the wine is no longer to be found, poetry abounds here…
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Posted by Corina Nolet in Middle East, Trip Participant Stories on 18th August, 2010 | 1 Comment
Part two in the ‘Journey to Iran’ series. A visit to an amazing desert town that is one of the very oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world (about 7,000 years). Because it was so isolated and dry, it was never made into a capital city, and thus was evidently never overrun and destroyed by foreign armies.
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Posted by Corina Nolet in Middle East, Trip Participant Stories on 10th August, 2010 | 1 Comment
Deborah James advocated for Fair Trade at Global Exchange from 1993 – 2005, and now serves as a member of the Global Exchange Board. She is currently the Director of International Programs at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. She recently participated in the the Citizen Diplomacy Delegation to Iran with Reality Tours and in a series of posts, she shares with us her experience.
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Posted by Alessandro I. in Middle East, Regions We Visit, Trip Participant Stories on 14th May, 2008 | No Comments
By Martha Hennessy Sunday was my first Mother’s Day without my mother. She passed away in March, her birth month. She was the daughter of Dorothy Day, Catholic convert, radical journalist, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. Both my mother, Tamar, and Dorothy continue to be a great influence on my life, and my »
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Posted by Alessandro I. in Middle East, Regions We Visit, Trip Participant Stories on 12th May, 2008 | No Comments
By Nancy Penrose I recently returned from spending two weeks in Iran as part of a citizen diplomacy delegation organized by Global Exchange in San Francisco. I am outraged that Sen. Hillary Clinton is perpetuating the warmongering approach of the Bush-Cheney administration by stating that if she were president, the United States could “totally obliterate” »
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Posted by Alessandro I. in Middle East, Regions We Visit, Trip Participant Stories on 9th February, 2004 | No Comments
By Judy Carlock Tucson Citizen February 9, 2004 I didn’t expect to be standing here, by these graves, tears rolling down my face. But then, I didn’t expect a lot of things when I came to Iran. I didn’t expect Tweetie Bird, platform shoes and nail polish. I didn’t expect to see ex-Wildcat basketball player »
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