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Uzbekistan: Language, Food, Culture, and the Most Amazing Places on the Silk Road
Uzbekistan is one of the most architecturally extraordinary countries on earth. The Silk Road cities that pass through it — Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva — were, for centuries, among the most important cities in the world: hubs of commerce, Islamic schol...
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What It's Actually Like to Be an American Walking Around Iran: Culture Shock, Hospitality, and Everything In Between
You land in Tehran. You walk out of the airport into a country that your government tells you not to visit, that your media portrays as hostile, and whose leaders regularly chant "Death to America" on television. You're nervous. And within 30 minutes...