I’ve lived over five decades across three different continents, witnessing firsthand both subtle and drastic differences in the lifestyles of those who call home France and Canada, and I’ve recently returned to a land whose culture I hold dear, my birthplace of...
On Friday, December 16, a terrorist attack carried out by a little girl with a bomb strapped to her, detonated by terroristic forces within a police station, shocked the people of Damascus, Syria. More specifically, the attack shocked those who read about it, as it...
When we seek to study and understand other cultures, where do we turn? Often, we look to a culture’s history to learn more about it–an understanding of the origins and beliefs of a group of people often sheds light on what that culture means to the individuals within...
Humanity has imagined much since written words were first used to capture and preserve experience in story form. While most of these works have disappeared from our collective memory, a small fraction of the literature we penned survived and even flourished despite...
At the heart of the wide realm of art lies visual art. While the field of “art” encompasses more than what I can even list here–television, movies, music, sculpture, theater, performance, even martial arts–many think immediately of visual arts such as paintings or...
