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Children Collect Memories of Football That Shape Their Souls
Children Learn Life Lessons Through the Joy of Football
Four Football Books To Deepen Your World Cup Experience
Football may be the world’s biggest game, but it is also thousands of smaller ones—played in dusty courtyards and abandoned lots, remembered in faded photographs, argued over in cafes and sung about in many languages.
Football’s Power and Drama Inspire Art Around the World
Culture
For the 2026 World Cup, as in the past, the game offers artists fertile ground, concentrating into 90 minutes a wide spectrum of human experience.
Where Fog Met Feet: Football's Spread From England to the World
Culture
Since its birth in 1863 in London, football has spread around the globe, with billions of fans who connect with the game as a source of cultural pride beyond the pitch.
An Alchemist's Quest To Re-create Medieval Healing Foods
Food historian and Arabic scholar Daniel Newman spent decades studying and re-creating centuries-old recipes, revealing the reasoning and alchemy behind food as medicine.
Rhythms and Processions Ignite Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale
The exhibit that takes place in Saudi Arabia is inspired by the Arabian Bedouins’ nomadic journeys, and their connective force across history, culture and art.
Fatimah Al-Nemer: Art Beyond Esthetics
Saudi Arabian visual artist Fatimah Al-Nemer's contemporary pieces place women at the center of an exploration of identity and heritage.
Guarding George Town: One Voice Keeping Penang’s Past Alive
Heritage advocate Loh-Lim Lin Lee helps people connect to George Town, a port city in Malaysia with a comingled Indian, Malay, Chinese, Arab and European past.
Spotlight on Photography: Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Japan
Arts
Japanese culture reveres the springtime blooms as a symbol of renewal.
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Cairo Across America: What Postcards Reveal
Discover how postcards shaped the stories of five American towns named after the Egyptian capital, and what their deeper histories tell us about place and belonging.
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Marag Simach-Matfi-Aromatic Fish Stew
This popular fish stew is served in honor of special guests.
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Children Learn Life Lessons Through the Joy of Football
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Indonesia, 2023: Street playtime in the coastal city of Surakarta.
Robertus Pudyanto/FIFA via Getty Images
Somalia, 2018: On Lido Beach in Mogadishu.
MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB/AFP via Getty Images
Türkiye, 2021: Playing on the snowy ground in the village of Kars at an altitude of 2,084 meters (6,837 feet).
Ismail Kaplan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Bhutan, 2008: At Zilukha Junior High School in the capital, Thimphu.
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