Tucked away in the rocky hills of southern Lebanon is the town of Qana. It is a place where, while buying a bottle of juice in a tiny store, a conservatively dressed Shia woman and her children may come up and ask where you are from, and then tell you about their uncle in Dearborn […]
Taking Stock Of Our Lives
There are places in this world that urge you to pause, and Lebanon’s Qadisha Valley is one. As the day ends over this historic landscape — birthplace of one of the most popular poets of all time, Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet — you look around and sense that the sun has set here for thousands of years, well […]
Michelangelo In All Of Us (Bil’in, West Bank)
You might not know it from the photo, but the girl and guy above don’t care much for each other. The scene is the West Bank village of Bil’in, and the protestor, from Europe or the United States, most likely, is trying to take a shield away from an Israeli soldier. The picture almost seems […]
Voices: Annika from Lapland, Finland
On September 29, 2013, I was wandering through the picturesque streets of Mostar, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in rounding one bend I saw the Crooked Bridge. It was mentioned in my guidebook: the centuries-old structure had been destroyed by a flood in 2000 and reconstructed the following year at the initiative of UNESCO. It’s […]
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