The Wayward Orientalist

Where's my medal? Hello dear readers, It has been a while, I know. Some of you undoubtedly thought my procrastinatory insti...

It happens every so often. A male acquaintance will do something that makes me uncomfortable—whether an unwanted touch, an objectifying com...

A Syrian child, wearing sandals in the snow. Photo from Facebook . Winter made it way to Lebanon last week in the most drastic way. A...

As previously mentioned , I read the news for a living*. This means I end up identifying a lot of recurring tropes—conventional storytellin...

Yesterday marked two years since I first came to Lebanon. It’s still surreal to think of all the factors that contributed to my being here....

Credit: Tumblr In Homer's Odyssey, Ulysses and his men spend ten years lost at sea on their way home after the Trojan War. One da...

Artistic rendition of the paperwork process ( Source ) Working on my thesis mainly involves mustering the motivation to plow through v...