Round 2: Al-Macera
Al-Macera. The Arabic ال or "the". Macera (ma-je-ra) or adventure in Turkish. "The Adventure Round 2" as I've dubbed it to family,...
Jane the Yogi
"Hi I'm Jane. I'm originally from Massachusetts and a student at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. I study Middle Eastern...
Qatar Foundation International and the Gilman Scholarship
On April 15th, I sent in this embarrassing video of my work-in-progress mash of Levantine/MSA Arabic. I spoke about Islamophobia, an...
الملكة نور Leap of Faith: Queen Noor of Jordan
My love for autobiographies, insight into others' lives, their struggles, successes, failures began with trips to the children's section...
Amman! A journey.
The "Sleepy Sultanate" of Oman would most like be nothing like any of the other options. To further complicate things, my alternate...
Oman! A journey.
1:04 pm. There was a pink and purple iPhone in the road and I knew it before I ran it over. Whenever I passed lost or discarded items on...
Boren Awards Conference - Washington D.C.
NSEP - Boren Scholarships - 2016 Boren Scholars Can't say I wasn't nervous about this in the beginning. Turned out to be an awesome...
CLS. Turkey.
January 27th. CLS Notifications Round 1. I held the butterflies inside my stomach all day as other applicants opened emails, announced...
USA-Turkey: Journal Entry #3
There once was a girl who lived in, what she basically called, a bubble. She wanted to see more of the world unlike most of the people...
USA-Turkey: Journal Entry #2
Just over 3 months in Turkey. Exactly one year ago today I learned that I would spend a year in Turkey. Here I am, living this life,...
