Cultural Traveler

Beirut city skyline in the early 2000s

Beirut Rises from the Ashes

After surviving a civil war, the city is once again a mecca for artists, a landscape covered with architecture and a wonderland of discoveries

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Yalta: Witness to History

When the Big Three —Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin —convened at this fabled Crimean seaside resort in 1945, the whole world was watching

Big Sur

Big Sur

James Oglethorpe

Dawn in the Garden of Good and Evil

Georgia's founding father knew best, but Savannah didn't stay unsinful for long

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On the Frankincense Trail

An archeologist travels ancient trade routes in search of clues to a lost civilization

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The Dominoes Are Falling

Planes are stacked on the runways and circling in holding patterns, delays are piling up and . . . the dominoes are falling

The Spray

Around the World Alone

Joshua Slocum was the first to do it, a hundred years ago, then wrote about it; the world is still awed by his seamanship and his prose

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Reflections on Fame

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Ahead of the Curve: the Art of Charles Rennie Mackintosh

With his wife, Margaret, he changed the face of Glasgow; now the city is celebrating them by sending a major exhibition across the pond

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The Suyá Sing and Dance and Fight For a Culture in Peril

For 25 years, anthropologist Tony Seeger has documented the music of Brazil's Suyá and he now leads the effort to protect their rights

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His Name Meant "Father Turk," and That He Was

Almost overnight Kemal Ataturk banned the fez, secularized the state, gave women the vote and set Turkey on a course toward the West

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They Forced Martinis Down My Throat and Kept Me Prisoner All Night

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Keeping Up With Our Freelancers in the Field

Since this magazine started sending writers and photographers all over the world back in 1970, they've had more adventures than most of us can dream up

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