Cairo In The Dust
When Pesha and I landed in Cairo, the night air was heavy with yellow dust. The January wind…
December 10, 2019
November 2019
This November felt unusual in so many ways, not least because it was gloriously warm out— the warmest…
December 4, 2019
October 2019
I thought I would travel somewhere outside of Istanbul this month… but I just didn’t. There was too…
November 4, 2019
An Ode To Vacation, Solitude, and Balance
“Aren’t you always on vacation?” I hear this constantly, often in half-jest, usually not. It’s hard to explain,…
October 21, 2019
September 2019
I knew September would race away and I wasn’t wrong. Where did this month go? At the same…
October 7, 2019
August 2019
Though summer often stretches into September in Istanbul, August always feels like the beginning of the end, when…
September 4, 2019
How do we write about travel and migration?
Two years ago, soon after I’d returned from a reporting trip in Tunisia, I went to a party…
June 27, 2019