Celebrating Christmas in Egypt
Did you know that Christmas in Egypt is celebrated on January 7 each year? I didn't either until I got to celebrate this holiday when I was living in Dahab, Egypt in 2012. Why is Christmas in Egypt on January…
The True Story of a Jewish Bahraini Princess
One warm night in Chicago, a 21-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman sits at the dinner table with her husband at the home of his family. Her Blackberry dings. She sees an e-mail from an unfamiliar address. Her biological mother, whom she…