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Ayhan Hulagu performs Karagöz, the 700-year-old art of Anatolian shadow puppetry.
Every February 21, on the eve of feast of the Chair of St. Peter, people light huge bonfires called biikebrennen.
I leaned forward to look for a—“Sharpener! Damn it, how do we say it in Galician?”
In my village, most girls stay at home and do domestic work. I was a bit of a wild child.
A village festival in the middle of snowy January in an unheated barn? No problem!
In the summer, the Ferme Seguin in Southern France provides weekly guided tours in French, English, and Occitan.
When Oswaldo Martín immigrated to East Oakland, California, nineteen years ago, no one in his class or neighborhood spoke his language.
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