Optimism for Bulgaria

Nicole Simmons isn’t a diplomat, yet she has become one of the most recognizable faces on the diplomatic circuit in Bulgaria in recent years. The wife of outgoing US ambassador

In the aftermath of World War Two, US Senator James William Fulbright conceived of a cultural and educational exchange program whose aim was “to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that

Margarita Dorovska has built bridges for years. Not bridges of the kind that require feats of engineering, but those that call for vision, humanity, sincerity, and a taste for the

In Spain, natural and manmade wonders are not the only places that attract tourism. Visitors also flock to the places that offer the best view of these sights—the so-called “miradores”

When a couple with young children visited Brodilovo Farm last fall, they were expecting to see stables, fencing, and a hay feeder. Instead, there were lush open meadows stretching as

Bulgaria, 2010. You have a good business idea and need funding to develop it. Unfortunately, you don’t have many options: you can either mortgage the family home or borrow from

Genoveva Christova is in the business of proving things. Proving that a girl can go far in sports. That she can remake herself when her original plan does not bear

At a tech event in San Francisco last fall, Pavlina Yanakieva met 91-year-old Pitch Johnson, one of the legendary first investors in Silicon Valley. He helped found some of the

Like one of Bulgaria’s most famous literary characters, Bogomil Balkansky bears the name of a mountain and has a reputation that precedes him. To the Bulgarian community in Silicon Valley