Miguel Moniz PhD

The first guitar that I bought I picked up from a pawn shop/second hand store just on the other side of the Bourne Bridge, on the Mass...

1. The Aldeia da Luz [Village of Light] is a small Portuguese hamlet deep in the heart of the agricultural farmlands and vineyards of rural Alentejo. I should be clear and say that I am talking about the new Aldeia da Luz and not the original village. The old aldeia met its fate when it was demolished, flooded, and submerged under water—the culmination of a-half-a-century-old public works project to create a regional water reservoir by building the Aquelva Dam in the middle o

Portugal is on the eastern shore of the Atlantic, that swath of coastline and coastal plain that blows back up inland from the hard ocean...

the country's hosting of the Copa has revealed unapologetic corruption at the top-levels, gross governmental financial waste and human righ

Published CD liner notes I was as surprised and I suppose as saddened as anyone else to hear that Bacalhoeiro was closing. I have been a...

Published in New Bedford Standard Times, Dec 22, 2011 p A5. Back in 1999, I caught Cesaria Evora — who passed away on her native island...

Online version published in RTP Açores Comunidades. Once upon a time, Fernando Aires invited me to his house for lunch. I was living in...

I originally published this piece in my old weekly column in the Portuguese Times after a visit by the freshly minted nobel laureate José...

2004 Brown University Graduate School Commencement Valedictorian, Published Brown University News & George Street Journal A few years...