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May 5, 2021“Perseverance and Assiduousness”: The Story of an Asian American Foreign Service Officer
I was born in a tiny town near my grandparents’ village in northern Zhejiang Province, China. With no money to send me to day ca...
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May 4, 2021An Honor to Serve
In April 1990 I was serving my first tour as a foreign service officer in Matamoros, Mexico as a vice consul. We got a call that a...
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May 3, 2021Commemorating World Press Freedom Day
On May 3, we commemorate World Press Freedom Day and reaffirm the ideal that information is a public good, and that people have a ...
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April 30, 2021Arab Americans and the Fabric of our Nation
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of State recognized April as National Arab American Heritage Month. As such, it is a time ...
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April 30, 2021The Story of Arab Americans’ Beginning in America – And the Quest for Fair Representation
Estebanico Azemmouri, a Moroccan man, landed in the United States of America in 1527, and Antonio Bishallany who immigrated from L...
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April 30, 2021Jazz Diplomacy: Then and Now
For the past eight decades, the State Department has relied on good old rag-timing, toe-tapping, bee-bopping Jazz to unite peoples...
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April 27, 2021Connecting With the Young African Leaders Initiative
The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. This week, Secretary Blinken is joining YALI...
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