After three years of writing, revising and editing, this week, I’m launching my essay collection about life in the Middle East, From Dunes to Dior. I started it after moving here, and listening to person…Continue Reading
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A Life Lived Five Years at a Time
January 2012 marks my return to a place I prepared for academically but never mentally: teaching university students. I went from undergrad straight into graduate school and then on to finish a PhD. Along the…Continue Reading
Your Best Year Ever?
There’s a lot of hemming and hawing about New Year’s resolutions: the last few years it’s become fashionable to be against them. Ninety percent of them are broken, experts say, and gyms love January as…Continue Reading