Post Tagged with: "hijab"
Blending into the Chaos in Lebanon
Upon learning I was moving to Jordan last year, the very first place I wanted to visit was Lebanon. Flights from Amman to Beirut are some of the shortest and cheapest in the region, and I picked up a curious interest in the city and country a few years ago.
A Walk through Meknes, Morocco
I’m running late again today. That means I’ll be walking alone to school. I grab my iPod on my way out, entertainment and defense for my walk. I skip down the stairs, not wanting to disturb the 1950′s elevator that creaks and moans whenever it is forced to come out of retirement. After a quick “good morning” to the doorman, I’m out on the city sidewalk under the bright Moroccan sun
Searching for Justice in Chittagong
I quietly drift down the street. I am solemn, graceful… I float past rickshaws. I am carried along with the current of Chittagonians. I wear a loose hijab and shalwar kamiz and I’m hoping that Bangladeshis assume I am Afghani before American. This trick will divert eyes and the questions: “why would a Westerner choose to move to Bangladesh”
Ahlan wa Sahlan – Home of Hospitality, Hijabs and Heat
Ahlan wa Sahlan! Welcome to Jordan! These words are ubiquitous, seeming to rise from nowhere and suddenly surrounding you, engulfing you in both a wave of hospitality and strange sense of unease
Life in Ramallah
The most frustrating thing about living in Ramallah and studying in a graduate program at Hebrew University in Jerusalem was that I was never on time. Less than ten miles apart, the two cities are divided by a twenty-foot cement wall and the corresponding checkpoint, Qalandiya, could make an otherwise twenty-minute drive take up to two hours.
