Portuguese neuroscientist, Tiago Reis Marques, M.D., is one of the recipients the 2012 NARSAD Young Investigator Grants, by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council. He is the first Portuguese scientist to be awarded the grant. Dr. Marques is a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry at the King’s College, London, UK. He has […]
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Neuroscience: Tiago Reis Marques recipient of the 2012 NARSAD Young Investigator Grant – Los Angeles, CA
Posted on 10 September 2012.
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New Law: Immigrants serving more than a year in jail will be deported – Portugal
Posted on 08 September 2012.
A new Portuguese legislation willl come into force on October 8 regarding the entrance, stay, departures and expulsion of foreigners, including the criminalization of hiring illegal immigrants and the expulsion of those sentenced to more than a year behind bars. According to the new legislation, any immigrants living in Portugal, who have been given prison […]
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Brian Sousa: Sempre p’ra Frente (Always Forward) – Interview
Posted on 07 September 2012.
Whether playing guitar with his band Ocean Transfer on a crowded Friday evening in New York City, teaching his 2:00 Introduction to Creative Writing course at Boston College, or up late writing a story about an exchange student in Lisbon, Portuguese-American writer Brian Sousa is moving forward.
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Profile: Jacinto Lucas Pires – Essay
Posted on 01 September 2012.
By Richard Simas, Contributor (*) Contemporary Portuguese writer Jacinto Lucas Pires is a keen observer of the quotidian. Like a gifted photographer, he seizes fragments in the people, places, and objects surrounding us, asking how can this be? He follows the wandering thought and unlikely possibility, tracks curious trajectories, and probes them until they bloom […]
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Book: “The Baker Who Pretended Be King of Portugal” by Ruth Mackay – Editor’s Note
Posted on 30 August 2012.
When King Sebastian of Portugal (1554-1578) was slain in battle in 1578, in Alcácer-Quibir, Morocco, he perished without a son or apparent heir, and Portugal lost her independence to Spain. Diligences to recover the king’s remains were fruitless, which added to the uncertainty of Sebastian’s fate and the popular belief that he could have survived battle […]
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Anthony De Sa’s raw fiction tells of bitter love and triumph – Interview
Posted on 29 August 2012.
By Millicent Accardi, Contributor (*) Like the steadfast sea in his fiction, the novelist Anthony De Sa is peaceful, sincere, calm, ever-changing, deep and mysterious. Growing up in the rough and tumble Portuguese neighborhoods of Toronto, De Sa heard family stories of the old country and tales of the Azores first hand. De Sa’s short […]
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