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...greatest story teller and poet they ever saw.”NOT JUST BUSKING FOR A BUCKMuch like Brother Blue, David Neiman built a career out of street performing after graduating from Brown University in 1981 with a joint degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics. Nieman, who was classically trained in guitar, also minored in Music. Considering Neiman’s resume, he is far from a beggar looking for a quick buck. When asked why he started performing, Neiman responds, “I saw someone playing the dulcimer on the Boston Commons while I was in school...
...through Bilad ash-Sham, Khorassan, and the Punjab,” says the Harvard Gazette, “chronicling the movement and rhythm of zikr, the ecstatic ceremony practiced by Sufi orders around the Muslim world.”Through the use of photography, Athanasiadis, a photojournalist and former Nieman fellow, seeks to shed light on oft overlooked aspects of Islam, allowing for a better understanding of what has become a world religion intensely scrutinized by mainstream media. The photographs represent Islam as meditational, peaceful, and beautiful.“Sufism focuses on how an individual develops...
...several big retailers that cater to the American middle class. Shoppers with a little less money may go to Sears or K-Mart. People who have a bit more disposable income may go to Nordstrom. Macy's shoppers are not likely to be in high end stores like Nieman Marcus or in companies like Wal-Mart who get consumers from the lower end of the income scale...
...other four finalists for the non-fiction award title are journalists Dexter Filkins—who was a Nieman Foundation fellow at Harvard two years ago—and Jane Mayer; political historian and American University professor Allan J. Lichtman; and University of Kentucky history professor George C. Herring...
...many tequila manufacturers. Suros’s lecture was the penultimate event of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies “Mexican Studies Program.” The program features events and lectures that explore the Mexican culture. The event was moderated by Alfredo Corchado, a Nieman Foundation fellow and the Mexico bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News. Suros said that in the past Mexicans were prejudiced against the consumption of tequila. “The images that we have are the ranchero, the guy in the cantina, guys getting drunk and singing with a bottle...