Siobhan McDonough, Writer
This has been on my computer for a long while now, but as my views have not changed in the past few months, there’s no time like the present to publish. I said in one of my first posts that I hadn’t gotten much in the way of gendered street harassment because I’m Chinese. This…
This week, my entire program took a trip to the Rif, on the Mediterranean coast of Morocco. Due to the rather unconventional itinerary (the Rif isn’t a heavily touristed place), we had a charter bus, so no public transportation adventures were to be had. Plus, there was air conditioning, and the bus was automatic. Uncannily…
It’s an odd feeling, coming back after time away. I’ve been back for five hours, and five days in Amsterdam already feels like a dream (helped, I’d imagine, by my sickness for the entire second half). I was surprised, after a few days away, to be missing my home in Rabat. Amsterdam was homey. As…
I’m writing while sick, which is hopefully only my body telling me “eating a bunch of different foods in 5 hours that you haven’t eaten in a month and a half wasn’t your best idea”, and not something more insidious.* As with the Paris post, there are a lot of things to cover for a…
For the uninitiated, as I was a mere month ago, Eid al-Adha is a Muslim holiday commemorating the sacrifice of Abraham. What is the sacrifice of Abraham? For those of you who haven’t read the Bible, Torah, or Qur’an, it’s part of the history of each of the Abrahamic traditions. In short, God tells Abraham…