Duke In Berlin Turns All of Germany Into a Classroom

“I was promised cherry blossoms if I came to Tokyo,” joked Professor Peter Feaver on a chilly March Friday to a room full of alumni and two dozen traveling Duke students who had just spent a week in Japan filled with immersive learning. The students re...

The music was provided by an oud: The base was a cooking pot, the neck created out of wood from a box of fruit, the strings made from sock threads and the pegs from fruit stems. The musicians were four Syrian men who had been through hell and survived ...