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One Haitian Christmas Tradition To Light Up Your Holiday

With the holidays just around the corner, I sometimes find it to be a meaningful and rewarding exercise to break free of the “American Christmas” culture to explore holiday traditions from countries around the world. Don’t get me wrong, my... Read more
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What one cholera victim wants you to know on International Human Rights Day

The Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) recently put out a call for volunteers to help translate hundreds of letters (more than 500 at first count) from Creole into English.  These letters are the testimony of some small... Read more
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What language are we speaking in again? Trials of a second-language learner

How many languages do you speak?? It’s so interesting to hear how people answer this question; I honestly never know what to respond.  Three?  One?  Two and three quarters?  Where is the bar we’re setting…. One of the things I... Read more
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  • Paul Clammer author of Haiti: The Bradt Travel Guide sits down with HaitiHub

15 Questions for Paul Clammer, Author of Haiti: The Bradt Travel Guide

We are thrilled to welcome acclaimed travel writer and guide book author, Paul Clammer, to the HaitiHub blog.  Paul has traveled, researched, and written about places all over the world including Morocco, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, the Dominican Republic, and... Read more
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Understanding the Current Crisis in the Dominican Republic

Understanding the current crisis in the Dominican Republic: In 2013 a Dominican constitutional court ruled to revoke the citizenship of anyone born in the D.R. after 1929 to Haitian immigrant parents. Why 1929? In 1929 the border dividing Hispaniola into... Read more
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