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Rome-based reporter. Writing in @teenvogue @smithsonianmag @nytimes @natgeo @glamourmag @wantedinrome + more. Say 👋: elizabeth@grafonwritingco.com.
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An American in Rome: can you forget you’re living inside ancient history?

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By Elizabeth Djinis Verified
| visititaly.eu
Four years ago, I had moved to Rome, and while it was true that I hadn’t done so solely in search of the ancient city, it was always in the back of my mind. I was like one of the American men who found themselves thinking about the Roman empire every day—I didn’t want to just think about it every day. I wanted to live it every day.
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The Long-Standing Vendors of Rome’s Porta Portese Vintage Market

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By Elizabeth Djinis Verified
| Italy Segreta
it Travel / Culture / Lifestyle / Lazio / Rome reading time 6 min “My stall isn’t just beautiful; it’s stunning.” An acquaintance I met in Rome once told me that a person’s opinion of the city’s most famous Sunday street market, Porta Portese, is a good way to judge their character. If they deem it too chaotic, then they’re probably not for you.
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Why Italian writer Igiaba Scego stopped ‘playing the defence attorney’ for Islam

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By Elizabeth Djinis Verified
| Hyphenonline Verified
Igiaba Scego, her 2025 novel Cassandra in Mogadishu. Photograph courtesy of Igiaba Scego As a writer in Italy, Igiaba Scego has long navigated competing expectations. Born in Rome to Somali parents,the acclaimed 52-year-old is Muslim, Black and Italian — identities that, she says, are often treated as incompatible. At school, classmates tried to force her to drink alcohol or eat pork. Once, she recalled, a fellow student slipped beer into her water while she was not looking.
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