The more I integrate myself into the cultures of the Middle East, the more I cringe when I hear people of my native American culture making inaccurate statements about the people I’ve come to know so well. So I’ve…
My new Syrian friends invited me to dinner in Jordan one night. In their airy white apartment we ate kubba nayeh, a dish native to their village in Idlib, we watched their children play and talked about the war. In…
On April 6, 2016, Muslim Iraqi refugee Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a student the University of California, Berkeley and a Huffington Post blogger, was thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight at Los Angeles International Airport for speaking his native language of Arabic.…
On Tuesday, March 28, 2017, I am going to be one of the first people in the world to fly from the Middle East to the United States under the new Middle Eastern laptop travel ban. This is the second…