The Almsmonger's Lover
excerpt They'd dozed off. The devilish furnace of the sun was blazing fiercely. They were positively stewing as through the shadow cast by their soles two Gypsy women walked by, bent under the burden of a galvanized bucket with a chunk of ice protruding from it. Ice-cold
Swampward Ho!
The two Popescus had meanwhile agreed that the first settlement the current location of the village could be traced down to, with any degree of accuracy, dated back to the middle of the 18th century or thereabouts, and belonged to a band of plain raiders coming to rest in
My Peaceful, Multiethnic Village
I saw the light of day in an atypical village of Bucovina. It was a multiethnic village, a kind of summary of Europe. A European Union avant la lettre. It is there, I believe, that a direction in my life was traced, an ecumenical dominant feature, one of understanding of
Comemorarea lui Constantin Brâncoveanu la Istanbul
ICR Dimitrie Cantemir –Istanbul: comemorarea lui Constantin Brâncoveanu la ctitoria acestuia din 1692 de pe malurile Bosforului;identificarea locului în care au fost executaţi la Istanbul, acum 294 ani, Brâncovenii martiri Institutul Cultural Român Dimitrie Cantemir-Istanbul
Comisia Naţională UNESCO şi Institutul Cultural Român vor promova patrimoniul UNESCO din România
Promovarea patrimoniului UNESCO din România prin institutele culturale româneşti din străinătate a fost tema unei întâlniri organizate marţi, 9 septembrie 2008, între membrii Comisiei parlamentare mixte pentru UNESCO şi reprezentanţii Institutului Cultural Român.
Memoirs Of A Witness
I was born and I spent my childhood in the capital of the country that is called Romania, a state that at that time had prided itself for about a decade with the name of Greater Romania, which was a creation of the preceding generation, but also the outcome of a long series
Mircea Cărtărescu la festivalul de literatură Festivaletteratura
În perioada 3 - 7 septembrie 2008 oraşul Mantova găzduieşte una dintre cele mai importante festivale de literatură din Italia, ajuns la cea de-a XII-a ediţie. Alaturi de scriitori din 70 de ţări si de importanţi autori italieni, literatura română este reprezentată
«Două linii: global şi local» – arhitectura romanească prezentată la Institutul Român de Cultură şi
Vineri, 12 septembrie a. c. , la orele 18. 30, Fundatia ARHITEXT design, cu sprijinul Ministerului Culturii si Cultelor, prin programul PROMOCULT, si in colaborare cu Institutul Roman de Cultura si Cercetare Umanistica din Venetia, prezinta proiectele a doi dintre cei mai
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For me, to draw means to tear something out of the unknown, to exhibit a piece of inner life, to put it in images. The materialization of this effort demands honesty, first of all. Yet, this is not enough, for you also need continuous labor in order to support creation.
Take, Ianke And Cadir
excerpts CADIR: What you do?IANKE: Linger around!CADIR: What about the children? This is big trouble! Here you stay in the house so calmly and the children stay there crying. IANKE: I knew it! Didn't I tell you? They are crying and waiting for the train! Luckily there's
My Grandfather Mehmed Ali
My grandfather Mehmed Ali was an old-fashioned Turk. He wore a long beard and the traditional Turkish costume. Each morning he would sit down next to the charcoal, the earthenware pot filled with live coals, sip his coffee and puff his long-stemmed chibouk. He would often
The Ethnogenesis Of The Dobrujan Turks
The definition of the genesis, as well as the delimitation of the area where the Turkish people was formed, and from where they spread from Central Asia to the Mediterranean Sea, is still a controversial issue among specialists. Discussions between Turkology scholars usually