05 September 2013
Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth, in partnership with the University Press of New England (UPNE), has launched the publication of Land, As Far As the Eye Can See: Portuguese in the Old West by Donald Warrin and Geoffrey L. Gomes, an entertaining account of pioneering Portuguese men and women who settled the vast frontier of […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Portugal, World
04 September 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) The Portuguese government would like to see a military punitive response to the recent use of chemical weapons in Syria, but only if it is backed “as far as possible” by an international organization such as the Security Council of the United Nations. This cautious view is in contrast to […]
Posted in Featured, Heritage, People, Politics, Portugal, World
02 September 2013
For the third time in the last five years, Lisbon was voted Europe’s Leading City Break Destination by the prestigious World Travel Awards (WTA). Considered to be the world ‘Oscars’ of tourism destinations, the honor tops Madrid, London, Istanbul, Dublin, Paris, Rome and Venice. Lisbon had earned the same recognition in 2009 and 2010 over […]
Posted in Awards, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, Portugal, Travel, World
29 August 2013
By Michael Colson, Contributor (*) Thomas J. Cousineau’s scholarly expertise on twentieth-century literary modernism informs his new critical study An Unwritten Novel: Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet (Dalkey Archive 2013). Cousineau offers us an informed introduction to a leading document of modernism that serves scholarly interests and undergraduate teaching needs. After earning a doctoral […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, Portugal, World
28 August 2013
Archaeologists from the Portuguese Association of Archaeological Research (APIA) have identified new archaeological evidence on Pico island that supports their belief that human occupation of the Azores predates the arrival of the Portuguese by many thousands of years. The new evidence comprises of a great variety of protohistoric pyramidal rock structures, some of them 13 […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Pico, Portugal, Terceira, World
27 August 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) As the international rhetoric ratchets up over the use of chemical weapons, Portugal may to be drawn into possible foreign military intervention in the civil war in Syria, but only on the fringe. The US Secretary of State John Kerry issued the strongest signal yet that the United States intends […]
