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# 86 DECEMBER 19 , 2016
# 86 DECEmber 19
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EDITORIAL #86:
What’s up with WTI
By Umberto Mucci
Ciao from Rome! Merry Christmas, and a
Happy 2017!! Do you like our new newsletter? And what about our new website? We’ve been working a lot on both of
them, and we hope that you’ll like them
as much as we do. They are easier, newer,
faster. Enjoy!
Our book is now offered on Amazon
with a discount, as you all can decide to
make it a perfect Christmas gift for somebody in your family, or some friends,
or a member of your Italian club… 100
different interviews about Italy and the
US, what’s better than that?
We also have news for our social media
friends. We are now not only on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter. From now on
you can also find us on Instagram and
YouTube!
The last photos you will find on our Instagram profile and the last videos you will
find on our YouTube channel are about
the two presentations of the Italian version of We the Italians – the book, this
month in Rome. The first presentation on
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December 5 at Centro Studi Americani was moderated by Lucia Pasqualini,
Head of Italian language
promotion at the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs and former Deputy Italian Consul General in New York.
We had the honour of having several intervierwees
with us: Renzo Arbore (ar-
tist, singer and director);
Delfina Licata (Editor of
Rapporto sugli Italiani nel
mondo); Mauro Battocchi (Former Italian Consul
General in San Francisco);
Paolo Messa (Executive
Director of Centro Studi
Americani); Franco Pavoncello (President of the
John Cabot University);
Portia Prebys (President of
the Association of American College and University Programs in Italy).
On December 8 we presented the book at the
Book fair Più Libri Più Liberi. The moderator was the
Italian journalist Mariella
Valdiserri, and the two in-
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