We were in Costa Rica, two months in, on a year-long adventure of travel, volunteering, and growth…
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Read MoreI am local. I am multi-local. My childhood is a collection of short stories that flit between Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Australia...
Read MoreMy new friend told me that we share the same piece of land, and the same group of people, so I’m Omani and he’s Pakistani…
Read MoreMoving away is an emotional process regardless of how close or far you’re heading. Take in all the emotions as they come. Feel like crying? Let the floods of tears come. Feel like laughing? Go for it!
Read MoreI find the Turkish language so beautiful, and when it is sung it becomes even more so. It didn’t hurt that I had crushes on most of the popular female Turkish pop singers back in the 1980s either...
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