Of Ruins and Revolutionaries

For the Eid Al Adha (Islamic religious festival) I travelled down to Cairo...here are my first impressions of the post-revolutionary city th...

My apologies…this WOULD have been breaking news had my blog not taken the backseat this past week due to Arabic midterms!  لحمد لله  all do...

Yesterday we went to a HUGE bazaar featuring arts, crafts, food, jewelry and pretty much anything else you could imagine from around the wor...

Today I had lunch at my friend’s host family’s beautiful house. We had Maklouba – a traditional Jordanian rice and chicken dish served on a...

Wadi Mujib is a canyon that enters the dead sea BELOW sea level, making it the  lowest-altitude nature reserve in the world...also one of ...

The Middle East? My favorite class thus far is called the Arab Spring - a political science class in which we look at the various polit...

Roman ruins, the remnants of an ancient civilization in the heart of the Middle East….bagpipe music? Apparently the British introduced t...