TagCultural Diplomacy

How a nation’s food became a gateway to cultural understanding and diplomacy.

How a lone musician became a symbol of hope amid the ruins of war.

Throughout 2025, the World Tribune will feature on the cover historical acts of cultural diplomacy that were effective in helping shift public sentiment and even thaw tensions between nations. As such, we open the New Year with the iconic January 1961 image of Louis Armstrong serenading his wife, Lucille, before the Great Sphinx of Giza