Susan Caster, who served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana from 1977-81, was the winner of Global Atlanta’s “Winter Wonderland” contest held over the Christmas holidays. The contest asked...
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German Group Brings World Cup Ball to Atlanta
In contrast to the hyper-competition surrounding the FIFA World Cup, the Spirit of Football, a non-governmental organization based in Erfurt, Germany, celebrates soccer as a means of promoting tolerance, fair...
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Soccer Spurs Passion, Profits Across Americas and Beyond
As with any global phenomenon, soccer can’t be defined in one dimension. As speakers at Global Atlanta’s recent Seeing the World Through Soccer event attested, it’s more than a game that...
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Nuremberg Seeks Atlanta Journalist for Urban Poverty Grant
Atlanta’s German sister city is seeking applications for a biannual grant for writers that this year will focus on urban poverty issues. Nuremberg’s international relations department hosts journalists, artists, film...
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Soccer Event Series Continues With Latin America Focus
Sealing a deal internationally requires some cross-cultural finesse, and nowhere are relationships more important to business than in Latin America. On Feb. 4, Global Atlanta, again in partnership with the Georgia Institute of...
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Sochi Snapshots: Atlanta Photographer Trains Lens on Winter Olympics
Atlanta-based freelance photographer Kevin Liles, an alumnus of Clayton State University, is blogging from an assignment in Sochi, Russia, the host of the controversial 2014 Winter Olympics. Mr. Liles has worked on newspapers around Georgia and...
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Georgia Council Hosts Visitors From 134 Countries in 2013
Hundreds of foreign leaders and professionals from 134 countries ranging from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe came to Georgia in 2012-13 thanks to an Atlanta-based nonprofit that works closely with the U.S....
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Books 2013: American Witnesses to the Rise of Hitler’s Germany
Book: “In The Garden of the Beasts” Author: Erik Larson Review: Paul Varian, retired journalist, CNN Though it has the narrative force and dramatic rush of a novel, this work of...
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Books 2013: Covering Atlanta’s Airport City Aspirations
Book: Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next Author(s): John Kasarda, Greg Lindsay Review: Trevor Williams, editor, Global Atlanta Perhaps more than any other city, Atlanta is defined by its international...
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Books 2013: The Travails of Tenant Farming in the Old South
Book(s): “Cotton Tenants: Three Families” by James Agee and “And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of ‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Men’: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall...