The film Letters from War, by Portuguese director Ivo Ferreira (2016), will be presented Sunday, May 7, at 2:15pm, as part of the 2017 edition of Panorama Europe Film Festival. The screening will take place in the Bartos Screening Room, at the Museum of the Moving Image, in Queens, NYC. Featured in 2016 Berlin Film […]
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Film: Portugal represented at the 2017 Panorama Europe Film Festival – MoMI, NYC
Posted on 01 May 2017.
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Crime: The Madeleine McCann case and the media – By Len Port
Posted on 01 May 2017.
By Len Port, Contributor (*) The most reported and discussed missing person case ever recorded is still not only a highly contentious mystery, but also a personal tragedy that has been turned into a public farce by elements of the media. In the entirely predictable press frenzy surrounding the imminent 10th anniversary of the disappearance, […]
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Book: ‘Ualalapi: Fragments from the End of Empire’ by Esaú Cossa- Editor’s Note
Posted on 25 April 2017.
Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa first published Ualalapi: Fragments from the End of Empire in Portuguese in 1987. Named one of Africa’s hundred best books of the twentieth century, it reflects on Mozambique’s past and present through interconnected narratives related to the last ruler of the Gaza Empire, Ngungunhane. Defeated by the Portuguese in 1895, Ngungunhane […]
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Today in History: Portuguese celebrate 43 years of constitutional democracy – Portugal
Posted on 25 April 2017.
Since 1974 “Freedom Day” is celebrated in Portugal — April 25 – as a national holiday to mark the bloodless military coup, supported by the civilian population, bringing democracy and civil liberties to the Portuguese people. After almost five decades of dictatorship (1937-1974), the Carnation Revolution, ended the Estado Novo regime, the longest dictatorship in Europe, […]
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Santa Maria: Aerospace Airbus to build base to launch satellites into orbit – Azores
Posted on 20 April 2017.
The island of Santa Maria in the Azores is being considered by the aerospace company Airbus as a well-positioned place to build a space base from which rockets will launch small earth satellites into orbit, the Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, revealed […]
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Book: ‘The Paras: Portugal’s First Elite Force in Africa,1961-1974’ – Editor’s Note
Posted on 18 April 2017.
Portuguese paratroopers or “paras” began as a stepchild of the army and found a home in the Portuguese Air Force in 1955. Initially, the post-World War Two Portuguese Army seemed to have had mixed emotions about the need for elite, special-purpose forces that operated in small units with the attendant flexibility and elevated lethality. Shock […]
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