Egypt: Tourism after the Revolution
BY ELIZABETH VILLARREAL About three months before my family’s Christmas vacation to Egypt, the questions started. “Are you sure it’s safe?” “Is there still time to change your plans? It just doesn’t seem prudent.” “You said you’d wait it out, but the political situation there doesn’t seem to be improving.” In the weeks before I...
In the Stillness of the Dark
By Katherine Aragon At five a.m., the Muslim prayers begin, calling those faithful to Islam to the mosque. The prayers resound from multiple locations in the refugee camp and echo through the valleys twisting through the Thai countryside. In the stillness of the dark, boys and men in round embroidered cotton caps and girls and...
Inside the Moroccan Kitchen
by Charley Locke Couscous plays a vital role in Moroccan cuisine. On Friday, Islam’s day of prayer, Moroccans go home for lunch to eat couscous and rest with their extended families. The meal takes an entire morning to prepare, as the grain must continually be removed from the couscoussier and fluffed together. Often, the older...
Letter from Chile: Meeting the Keepers of the Seeds
by Diana Saverin: I sat alone in the plaza as the thick November dusk dissolved off the stones. I was in a town in southern Chile called Curarrehue: a village of a few thousand people, mostly indigenous, nestled at the base of a volcano-speckled valley, with gravel roads twisting through the passing farms. I watched...
Letter from… Orissa
What is the worth of international volunteers?
Letter From Paris
by Jack Newsham: “Authority,” I said. “Father. Uniform,” my French host brother Balthazar responded. We sat in the kitchen of the family’s apartment after dinner, playing a word association game. “Suburbs,” I said, thinking of detached homes and manicured lawns. But Balthazar’s association was less rosy: “Riots.” From the northern reaches of Paris, you can...
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