Thursday, November 13, 2025

Filipiniana Dresses to Show Filipino Pride

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  Filipiniana dress  I like to wear Filipina dresses when I'm at book events, and people seem to appreciate them. Here are pictures take...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Porto Alegre Book Fair - Podcast (Video) Interview of Cecilia Brainard and Mai Khaled

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Porto Alegre Book Fair -- Brazil  Feiradolivro - Podcast, video with Filipino author Cecilia Brainard & Egyptian author Mai Khaled  At P...

Brazil 2025 - Faces to Remember

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  Leonardo Garzaro, Isabela Figueira, their son, Mai Khaled, Cecilia Brainard, Garzaro children In Sao Paulo, Brazil, I had the pleasure of ...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Sao Paulo Brazil Tour 3 -- Pinoteca and more

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  Sao Paulo, Brazil tours Today I visited the Pinoteca de Sao Paulo, which has museums and beautiful gardens. I loved the architecture of th...

Cebu Lessons Learned from Uwan Super Typhoon

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  Back in California from the Porto Alegre Book Fair and visit to Sao Paulo, I'm now looking carefully at what Cebuanos suffered from th...
Friday, November 7, 2025

Sao Paulo Brazil Adventure -- Day 2

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  November 7, 2025 Today the Egyptian writer Mai Khaled and I struck out on our own to do some sightseeing. First of all, Sao Paulo is huge,...

Sao Paulo, Brazil Adventure - day 1

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Mai Khaled and Cecilia Brainard   The "perfect days" we've been having ended yesterday, Thursday November 6. First, at the Por...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Porto Alegre Brazil Book Fair -- Day 2

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  Today was a busy but highly satisfying day. Egyptian novelist Mai Khaled and I had mini- interviews for publicity purposes, photo shoot, 3...
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Porto Alegre Brazil Book Fair -Day 1

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  Egyptian novelist Mai Khaled and I are in Porto Alegre, Brazil for the book fair . Our Brazilian publisher and translator Leonardo Garza...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Plantation Bay: Where "Real Food for Real People" Still Means Something

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  PLANTATION BAY: WHERE "REAL FOOD FOR REAL PEOPLE" STILL MEANS SOMETHING by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard  Cebu has long been known ...

Top Translated Filipino Authors - Includes Cecilia Brainard

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  Thanks to my literary agent Senja Pozar for negotiating all but one of my foreign translations, putting me in the 'Top Translated Auth...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Cross-cultural Exchange Via Cecilia Brainard's Translations

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L-r: Filip Batkoski, Senja Pozar, Nenad Saponja, Mohamed Radi, Leonardo Garzaro, and Dejan Trajkoski Press Release -10/19/25 Cross-cultural ...