Weekend Passport: Russian Music and Ballet, Middle East Poetry and Travel the globe frugally

Weekend Passport: Russian Music and Ballet, Middle East Poetry and Travel the globe frugally
Weekend Passport: Russian Music and Ballet, Middle East Poetry and Travel the globe frugally

Weekend Passport: Russian Music and Ballet, Middle East Poetry and Travel the globe frugally

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Each week global citizen Nari Safavi helps listeners plan their international weekend. This week he’ll recommend a concert that blends Russian folk music with classical and electronic music, a poetry festival featuring Iraqi and other Middle Eastern poets and we’ll find out how to travel the globe, on $50 a day with Matt Kepnes is author of the book How to Travel the World on $50 a Day and editor of the ‘Nomadic Matt’, travel blog PHOTO: In this Aug. 26, 2009 photo, foreign travelers wait for a taxi near the Captain Youth Hostel, in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo)