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Joseph Mussomeli was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia on October 29, 2010.

Ambassador Mussomeli entered the U.S. Foreign Service in September 1980. His first overseas posting was in Cairo, Egypt, as a general service officer (GSO). After that, he returned to Washington DC, where he worked at the Department of State as staff assistant to the Undersecretary for Security Assistance. His next overseas assignment was in Manila, Philippines, as a consular officer from 1984-1986, to which he would later return in 2002 as Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM). Before that time, however, his tours included: North Korea Desk Officer (1986-1988), Senior Watch Officer (1989-1990), Economic Counselor in Colombo, Sri Lanka, (1990-1992), Inspector for the Office of Inspector General (1992-1994), Political Counselor in Rabat, Morocco (1995-1998), Deputy Chief of Mission in Manama, Bahrain (1998-2001), and as a member of the Senior Seminar (2001-2002). During his second tour in the Philippines as DCM, he served as Charge d'Affaires for a year while the Ambassador, Frank Ricciardone, was away. On June 24, 2005, the United States Senate confirmed him as U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia. After this, he served as Director of Human Resources/ELCDA at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC, for one year, followed by a tour in Kabul, Afghanistan as Assistant Chief of Mission. Ambassador Mussomeli was confirmed by the Senate as U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia on September 29, 2010.
Ambassador Mussomeli has received several awards including two Superior Honor Awards, one Group Superior Honor Award, and two Meritorious Honor Awards.

November 4, 2010 6:30pm

Center for Jewish History, Centro Primo Levi and PEN World Voices Festival in collaboration with the Consulate General of Slovenia present:

Boris Pahor's Necropolis: A Slovenian Story of Culture, Conflict, and Persecution on the Northeastern Border of Italy

A Panel Discussion

In 1941 Boris Pahor, who later became one of the most prominent Slovene authors, was drafted into Mussolini's army. He returned to his home city of Trieste, a city occupied by the Nazis, after the armistice in 1943. He joined the Yugoslav resistance forces and was arrested in 1944 and sent to Dachau, Struthof, Harzungen and Bergen-Belsen. His memoir of his camp experiences, Necropolis, recently published in a new English edition by Dalkey Archive Press, will be the centerpiece of this event.

Panelists will explore Trieste's cultural diversity then and now, and how one of Europe's most multicultural cities became an epicenter of racist violence a full decade before the Nazi seizure of power in 1933.

Panelists:
Joze Pirjevec, University of Primorska, Slovenia
Uri Cohen, Columbia University
Annie Cohen-Solal, NYU
Michael Biggins, University of Washington Libraries; Boris Pahor's translator

Cleveland, Ohio October 22, 2010 - U.S. Senator George Voinovich and senatorial candidate Rob Portman visited the Slovenian Museum and Archives and Slovenian National Home as part of the Senator's tour of Slovenian locations that have been significant to him during his administration.

The Slovenian Cultural Garden Association, on Friday June 18th, 2010 for the dedication of a newly carved bust of Ivan Cankar, famous poet and writer. Photo by Phil Hrvatin

The Slovenian Cultural Garden Association invites you to their Annual Membership Meeting to be held at St. Mary's Collinwood School Auditorium 15519 Holmes Ave. Cleveland, Ohio. Monday November 8, 2010 at 7:30pm

Please stop in to hear about our current plans and activities.

Lep pozdrav

Slovenian Cultural Garden Board of Trustees

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