Juxtaposed: There’s always more to a place than the stereotypes we’ve heard before arriving or what easily meets the eye… In this case, Sicily’s gruesome history has probably overshadowed the beauty of this part of Italy. Sicily has become synonymous with organized crime, specifically as the home to the Sicilian Mafia (called the Cosa Nostra). But,…
Archives for July 2012
A Tunisian Martyr in San Francisco’s Mission
Much like the assassins bullets that tipped off World War I, the flames that engulfed the body of twenty-six year old Mohamed Bouazizi, a fruit vendor living in Tunsia, on Dec. 17, 2010 tipped off a wave of revolution in Tunisia and throughout the Arab world. As a response to the country’s rampant corruption, Bousazizi’s self-immolation served…
A Sandwich and an Assassination in Sarajevo
What does a sandwich have to do with an assassination? How much do you know about the assassination brought on the beginning of WWI? I can’t say I remembered much about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria beyond that, other than that it took place in Sarajevo, Bosnia… Until I began snooping around in the…