A Middle Eastern Anomaly

On a rather scorching hot Tuesday afternoon, four women from all over the world decided to take a visit to Nablus in the West Bank. These f...

There are those times in life when you are given an experience that changes your life, turns your world upside down and rocks it. I have be...

The shabbat horn blows like an orchestra bubbling up through the streets, penetrating every sidewalk crack, dark alley and welcoming home. ...

Bat & Bar Mitzvah's in Israel bring party to a whole new level. I attended a fantastic Bat-Mitzvah a few weeks ago (my friend's...

Jerusalem at sunset  There is nothing like the calls to prayer echoing through a city. The azzan calls the city's Muslim inhabitant...

Me at  our MEND event Arabic map the city of Assawiya  friends who came to the event!  On Monday, July 8, after Hebrew cl...

Having lived in the Middle East on and off for the last 5 years, I'd like to think I've become accustomed to most unusual occurrenc...

The past week deserves many adjectives, the most expressive and accurate of them being, exhausting. This week, I will share some tidbits ...

A friend of mine was working in Ramallah for the summer, so I planned a short trip to visit. It brought me back to reality, social, politic...

Dearest loyal readers, Thank you for always reading my latest travels, musings and observations about this crazy thing we call life. I to...

As we last left off, we explored the fine city of Diyarbakir. Now, the capital of Kurdistan, or the base of the Kurdish people, Diyarbakir ...

Day 1 in Diyarbakir: After eating a meal of Kurdish traditional dishes and a semolina helva dessert, we marched through the Diyarbakir stre...

Things have been pretty normal this week. Though it defiintely leaned towards the "what an awful week" side. This week in class, ...

Akyaka is not widely known. In fact, many of my Turkish friends were unfamiliar with this little beach side village on the Aegean Sea. It t...

Throughout this year, we did a lot of traveling. Turkey is gigantic. The places to see are countless and the days are few. But in this beau...