Djerba, TUNISIA – My hometown Guellala is a place of wonders, where love, compassion and kindness...
Category - Perspective
My Hometown: Complex feelings and a desire to help
South Ozone Park, Queens, NEW YORK CITY – I live in South Ozone Park, Queens. It’s a relatively...
My hometown: living in an affluent Pennsylvania bubble
Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, U.S.A – I was at a camp in a neighboring town, and we were going around...
Terrorism in Sri Lanka – or anywhere – isn’t...
PARIS – As a child growing up in the sleepy hill town of Nuwara Eliya during the Sri Lankan civil...
Pad Drive overcomes taboo issue to help women and girls
Seongnam, SOUTH KOREA – When we think about girls not having access to sanitary pads, we often...
Abortion ban is an attack on women’s rights
MIAMI – The show “The Handmaid’s Tale” reminds me of what is happening right now in America. In the...
Fire at Notre-Dame a ‘deep wound to humanity’s...
Auburn, Maine, U.S.A. – No one died. And yet the fire that blazed for hours in Notre-Dame Cathedral...
Notre-Dame: history set in stone
Edinburgh, SCOTLAND – When I found out that the Notre-Dame Cathedral was on fire, I was just...