10 September 2012
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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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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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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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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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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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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