Nico Borbely

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Introduction Various stints of this blog: "A Year in the Mother of the World," during my 2012-2013 AFS year program in Alexandria, Egypt. "Good Dil," for my 2014 NSLI-Y Turkish summer program in Bursa, Turkey. "Eldur og ís(land), meaning "Fire and ice(land), during my first summer program in Iceland at the University Center of the Westfjords in 2016. "AzerbayCANIM," for my CLS Turkish program in the summer of 2017. "Russian to Finnish," during my junior year of college abroad in Moscow, Russia, and Turku, Finland. "Nico and the world," intermittently. And now "Thoughts and Words," after one of my favorite Italian songs, "Pensieri e parole" by Lucio Battisti.
Interests Languages, history, humanities, reading, writing, travel, cultural, migration, and identity studies, social justice, LGBTQ rights, politics, climate justice and environmental activism, poetry, music.