Category Personal Experiences
Mountain view of the original Our Lady of La Salette shrine in the mountains near Grenoble, France. God and poetry ~ Which is the highest form of spirituality? To be a Catholic priest in Western culture is a… Continue Reading →
My recent trips back to Germany has made me question some of the cultural and social norms that I was raised with growing up in the U.S. In order to best illustrate the culture shock of visiting a different country,… Continue Reading →
This is the Kabba. Located in Mecca it is believed to house one of Antarah’s poems Antarah ibn shaddad was a pre-Islamic poet whose mother was an Ethiopian slave and father was of the ancient Arab tribe the Banu Abs…. Continue Reading →
“I have indeed – praise be to God – attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and I have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.”- Ibn Battuta… Continue Reading →
Arabian Nights: Women in Power and Cross - Cultural Attitudes
The Commodification and Confinement of Women as Reflected in One Thousand and One Nights
God and Poetry: Which is True Spirituality?
Hamilton and Buluqiya in the Quest for Immortality
Experiences in Germany through the Lens of an American, Ibn Fadlan Style
Unmasking the Depictions of Harlots, Whores, Sinners and "Middle Eastern" Women
Dangerous Women: Gender Themes in One Thousand and One Nights and the Odyssey
My Experience with Race Through the Prose of Antarah Ibn Shaddad
The Qasidah of our Youth: A Poem of the Past
A Nomad’s Home: Travel, Home, and Modern Constructions of Arab Identity
On Spiders and Mercy
Symbolism of Rain in Sayyab's "Rain Song" and Western Songs About Rain
The Function of the Classic Hero Cross-Culturally
Re-creating Ancient Myth in a Modern World: Women in Television
The Great Flood: Comparing Norse and Arabic Myth Today
1001 Nights and Disney: The Three Princes and the Princess of Nouronnihar and Brave
“رحلتي”: Being Visibly the “Other” Inspired by Ibn Battuta’s The Travels and Fatema Mernissi’s Scheherazade Goes West