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...