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Marrakech: The Most Honest City in the World

Marrakech: The Most Honest City in the World
By on August 7, 2012

“Comme ca, like this.” The old Moroccan rug salesman placed his thumb on the rim of the small painted tea glass, and his pointer finger on the bottom – the proper form for sipping mint tea. A friend and I sat in the upstairs loft of the family store in Marrakech, enjoying the tea and hospitality of the store’s owner

Confronting the “Taken” Myth in Paris

Confronting the “Taken” Myth in Paris
By on May 6, 2012

When I was a little girl flipping through my mother’s photo album from her semester abroad and dreaming of my own, I never contemplated that I would be warned or discouraged or worried about more than the boys were