On a quiet residential street of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Bamonte’s Italian restaurant celebrates 118 years and four generations of seamless family transition.  Bamonte’s phone rings non-stop. Most Friday afternoons, the restaurant refuses reservations for the weekend. Its 25 tables are filled, thanks in part to John “Bamonte.” He allows this journalist...

On December 6th at the United Nations, UN Ambassador Kelly Craft held a press conference to unveil the UN Security Council’s December agenda. As this month’s president, she said her tenure would focus on a “credible Council.” She was accompanied by her “two co-anchors” Senior Advisor Michael Barkin and Communications...

New Yorkers seized the opportunity to meet this Italian mayor--recipient of the Dresden Peace Prize for his innovative model of immigrant integration-- who has welcomed refugees instead of banishing them, secured them houses instead of placing them in camps, and created jobs over detention contracts.

At the same meeting, the Foreign Minister of Libya, Taha Siala, accused the international community of “exacerbating” conflict through their “indifference” and “interference.” He called upon the EU, UN and African Union to take a “clear and unified approach.” During her testimony, Rida Al Tubuly, who leads a non-profit called...

Next week, Nov 18-24, marks the fourth anniversary of the World Week of Italian Cuisine. Countries across the world will celebrate with dinners, panel discussions, and other activities that pay homage to the innovation, technology and tradition of Italian gastronomy. In New York, five events will take place across the...

Per leggere su questo in italiano, qui. Seven years ago, in 2012, fourteen Somalian and Eritrean nationals proved that Italy had violated the European Convention on Human Rights with its practice of intercepting migrants on the Mediterranean and bringing them to Libya where they risk torture, degrading treatment and death....

Researchers facilitated peer-to-peer biographical interviews and focus groups, so that interviewees could share their life experiences with “ample scope to express themselves freely.” 

During the UN Security Council Meeting on the Libyan Situation on Nov 5th, Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bom Bensouda said her office at the International Criminal Court is analyzing evidence on alleged crimes against migrants in Libya. It’s been nearly 10 years since the International Criminal Court opened its investigation into...

Asked about the state of British diplomacy in the shadow of Brexit, the President of the UN Security Council Karen Pierce assured us that it is alive and well, and that thanks to the deals that had been made with the European Union, the UN’s importance for the UK would...

Bartholdi and Fedi never met, but were both stirred by the same idea. After many emails, transatlantic visits and research, the U.S. National Parks Service and the Opera di Santa Croce in Florence, Italy succeeded in producing this long-awaited exhibit with the help of several other partners. The exhibit runs...