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Opinion | Why protecting the oceans is essential – Len Port

The Portuguese government is fully committed to the protection and sustainable use of the oceans, Prime Minister Luis Montenegro told while addressing the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York last week.  He said that one of his government’s main strategic priorities was fulfilling the goals of the international 2030 Agenda designed to reinforce […]

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Community | FABRIC Arts Festival celebrates Portuguese cultural heritage – Fall River, MA

The 2024 Fabric Arts Festival (FABRIC) will take place from October 10-13 in Fall River, MA, and Providence, RI. On its fifth edition, the festival showcases various events including visual art exhibits, live music performances, installations, educational workshops, gastronomy and communal dinners.  FABRIC brings together more than 40 international artists from various backgrounds to New England to present […]

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Book | Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy | By K. J. P. Lowe | Editor’s Note

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of “goods” from Portuguese trading voyages—fruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people. Many historians hold that this imperial “opening up” of the world transformed the way Europeans understood the global. In this book, K.J.P. Lowe challenges such an […]

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Portugal | Prime Minister Luís Montenegro addresses the UN General Assembly – New York, NY

Prime Minister of Portugal, Luís Montenegro, took the stage today at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to reaffirm Portugal’s commitment to tackling key global challenges such as climate change, human rights, and gender equality. Montenegro emphasized the importance of working with Portuguese-speaking nations to advance these initiatives. This year’s UNGA session is focused on […]

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Opinion | Global wildfires and floods call for faster action – Len Port

The devastating wildfires raging across Portugal this week and the catastrophic floods in central Europe are just two more examples of the global crisis that will be discussed during the upcoming ‘New York Climate Week’. Thousands of Portuguese firefighters, with many reinforcements from Spain and Morocco, plus water bombers from Italy and France, have been […]

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Ananda Lima | The mirage of being home away from home – Interview

By Millicent Borges Accardi Ananda Lima wears many hats: a poet, a fiction writer, teacher, mentor, and translator. She is the author of the recent book, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor Books,2024) and the poetry collection Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), which won the Hudson Prize.  Lima holds an MA in Linguistics from UCLA as well as an […]

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