Tag: history
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Backgammon in Iran
This episode of the SoftPower/FulStories podcast features John Limbert’s experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer and diplomat in Iran.
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Profiles in Service Now on Kindle
Profiles in Service: Peace Corps Roots in American Diplomacy is now available in seconds on your Kindle.
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Launch Day
The writer is greedy, demanding, insistent. Each word must lead the reader to the end of a sentence, a paragraph, a page.
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Three Koreas
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The harsh environment, the boys pushed hard by striving parents, the high expectations Koreans had for themselves and Peace Corps volunteers all made for an often grinding experience
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From Oral History to Historical Narrative
I’m pulling back the curtain on process, sharing an excerpt of David Greenlee’s ADST oral history alongside the final narrative form from Profiles in Service.
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Choosing Local Leadership
From Peace Corps service, Ambassador Hill knew how fraught the process of picking someone else’s leadership could be. He’d seen it fail time and again
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Profile: Donald Bliss
Profiles in Service: Peace Corps Roots in American Diplomacy is now available and I’m reviving the practice of sharing memorable stories from the collection.
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Hostage Crisis III and the Ghosts of Camelot
Metrinko was cleaned up and brought to meet Tehran’s Friday prayer leader Ali Khamenei. In the room were a camera crew and the SFIL spokesperson, Niloufar Ebtekar
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Peace Corps Turkey and Iran
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Before enduring 444 days of captivity at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Michael Metrinko served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Turkey (1968-70) and Iran (1970-73).
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Profile: Michael Metrinko
Afghan Finance Minister Ghani steeped Metrinko and Peace Corps Director Vasquez in nostalgia from his years learning English and basketball with PCVs in Kabul
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