Interviews with Levantine PD Executive Director Paul Rockower:

• American Security Project, “Cultural Diplomacy: Hip Hop Diplomacy in India,” June 2014
• Zee News, “American hip-hop artists connect with ‘baul’ music,” June 2014
• RealCheapEats, “Gastrodiplomacy Takes Root in New York City,” July 2014
• No Depression, “Saving the World with Banjos: American Roots Music as Cultural Diplomacy,” January 2015
• Diverse, “State Department, UNC Turn to Hip-Hop to Bring the World Closer,” April 2016
• El Mercurio, “Gastrodiplomacia,” May 2016

Articles written by Levantine PD Executive Director Paul Rockower:

• USC Center on Public Diplomacy, “Hip Hop Diplomacy,” July 2014
• USC Center on Public Diplomacy, “The Good, the Bad and the Hungry,” June 2015

Stories placed by Levantine Public Diplomacy:

Next Level

• PolicyMic, “The State Department is using hip hop to do something politicians rarely accomplish“

A Tale of Two Syrians

• Dallas Morning News, “Nonprofit delivers music students from Syria’s war to Waco,”  December 2013
• Baylor Lariat, “Musical Syrian students connect with Waco community,” October 2013
• Baylor Proud, “Pair of Syrian students find relief and hope studying at Baylor,” September 2013
• Waco Tribune, “Syrian students find relief from civil war in music studies at Baylor, MCC,” September 2013
• ABC 25 Waco, “A tale of two Syrians,” August 2013
• KWBU, “Musicians Leave War-Torn Syria to Study in Waco,” August 2013

Stories about Levantine PD programs: 

World Cup Brazil 2014 Program

• Terra,  “Veja pocket show de 1ª banda feminina de bluegrass dos EUA” (Della Mae World Cup Brazil)
• U.S. Consulate General to Rio De Janeiro, “Clinton Curtis Band no Espirito Santo” (The Clinton Curtis Band World Cup Brazil)
• U.S. Consulate General to Recife, “Cultural Connections” (The Clinton Curtis Band World Cup Brazil)