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April 11, 2014
Friday Fashion: Personality at Work
Welcome to a new feature on the blog, inspired by Mami’s Timeout, Fashion Fridays. I’ve got two children under the age of four, so time is rarely on my side. My solution to being short on time is the dress. A sheath dress that ends below the knee can be worn in most office […]
April 9, 2014
April 7, 2014
Barred from Jazz to Burning in Hell: Women, Qatar and Abayas
If you alienate the middle, where the moderates are, all you’ll have left is the extreme. We’ve seen this happening in American politics as the Republicans and Democrats hurl insults at each other like parents at a toddler football game. And it’s happening in contemporary society in Qatar in the way people view or sanction […]
April 1, 2014
March 31, 2014
What Has She Done? Review of Etel Adnan in All Her Dimensions
Yellow sun. Orange sun. What has she done? At first glance everything seems so ho-hum. Etel Adnan in All Her Dimensions is not an exhibit that grabs your attention like other work in the same building. You may hate or love performance Mona Hatoum, for example, or find Manal Al Dowayan’s project on Saudi teachers is […]
March 30, 2014
Sunday Supper: Garlic shrimp bulgar
Normally no one ever says anything to me about my book events, life events, or Facebook posts of any kind. I took to the kitchen as refuge after months of grant writing had my eyes glazing over in fatigue. “Wow, you’re really cooking,” everyone from close friends, to family, to the mom at nursery pick […]
March 25, 2014
Wordless Wednesday: Bootie and the Beast
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March 24, 2014
Getting into Harvard Is Easier Than Kindergarten in Qatar
The average person has a 7/100 chance of being accepted by Harvard University according to the 2013 admission rate. Our three year old, however, has a 0/6 acceptance rate thus far for Pre-K 4 in Qatar. That school competition is fierce is an understatement. Here, in the gently blowing sands, a city bursting at its […]
March 19, 2014
Wordless Wednesday: 1/100 Pediatric AIDS Foundation Fundraiser
Author Roy Huff is offering a Goodreads giveaway for a good cause. Sign up to win an autographed paperback copy of Everville: The First Pillar [ending 3/29]. $1 for every 100 entrants will be donated to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Open to all countries. Related articles Students take on fight against HIV/AIDS More […]
March 17, 2014
The Uncensored Sequel
A week ago my novel, Love Comes Later, the first novel in English set in Qatar was banned from distribution inside the emirate. The reasons the officials gave were murky and you can catch up on why here. Or here. And here. I wrote the first one with an eye to seeing it on the shelves […]
