Morjes!

Welcome to my blog. I write about fitting in, sticking out, and missing the motherland as a serial foreigner.

June 26th, outsourced

Prison born: what becomes of babies of incarcerated mothers?

This article about the lack of cultural awareness among Western educators in the UAE is kind of sort of what I wrote my thesis about.

While the US is maybe going to put a woman on the $10 bill, the UAE has just released a series of stamps featuring women in UAE history. Cool old pictures!

Tourists in Greece are assisting illegal migrants arriving by boat on the beach. What an odd, kind of heartwarming story! [HT Breanne]

I guess The National was just going around validating my opinions this week: here's an article about colored abayas and whether they're modest (I blogged about colored abayas here).

Every time I think of this response to a panicky Wal-mart fb page commenter, I find a new part to make me burst out laughing. [HT Andrew]

 

 

Saying goodbye is a process and this is part one

School's almost out