How lonely my life could’ve been had I stuck to my culture which tells me to value the thick ties of family above all else...
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Vegetables and fruits defy all 150m2 of the backyard and nudge across the neighbourly fence. Life can not be contained…
Read MoreI am celebrating my 27th birthday zip-lining along the emerald enclaves of Costa Rica that strangely remind me of the yawning valleys of my own tiny Lebanese chouf village...
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 MoreI find it hard to reach out to my colleagues. In my Australian culture, grief is largely seen as a private affair, punctuated by long and absent silences. Needing a national ‘Are you OK’ day says a lot about us, and how hard it is to have conversations outside socially acceptable boundaries...
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TCK TOWN Recipe Book
A luscious, mouth-watering Lebanese dessert and one of Lebanon’s most traditional sweets.
Read MoreWhen we’re young, our dreams are sky high — endless wish lists filled with enormous expectations of ourselves and that of the world around us...
Read MoreIn the past 6 years I have watched my mum utterly transform - a shift that started the first day she stepped into her chosen university. She went from calling us about the location of her saved files to independently researching university databases and overloading her bookmarks tab...
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