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Crossing Barriers in Israel with Green Olive Tours

– By Kristin Henning  – August 22, 2017This article won a finalist award from North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) in the Personality and Profiles category. The original article was published on the TravelPast50 Blog. Fred Schlomka, founder of Green Olive Collective, prepares for a long distance ride through the U.S. Fred Schlomka is an […]

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Green Olive Tours: How to Offer Tourists an Alternative Vision

By Amelie Phillipson –  In Israel, tourism is usually orientated towards visiting the Holy Sites by religious pilgrims, or to the image of long sandy beaches in Tel Aviv, Eilat and by the Dead Sea. Yet it also happens that travelers are curious to find out how people live and how a country works, to […]

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Review of Sahar Khalifeh’s book, “The End of Spring”

by Yahav Zohar – “The End of Spring” is the only book I’ve read by prolific novelist Sahar Khalifeh. I’ve heard and read that it is not her best, and I am inclined to agree that as a novel it is far from perfect. Characters tend to be roughly sketched and bordering on stereotype, the […]

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Review of Khalil Nakhleh’s book, ‘Globalized Palestine’

by Yahav Zohar – A recent BBC news report tells of what may turn out to be the world’s largest ghost town- Nova Cidade de Kilamba, 30 kilometers outside the Angolan capital of Luanda, is set to house some Nova Cidade de Kilamba 500,000 people in colorful modern apartment blocks,  but nobody is moving in. […]

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