When I travel I always look for a specific souvenir – a book. Let’s travel the world through our bookcases and see what there is to explore!
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CategoryCulture and Identity
Street Art for Social Change
Lisbon’s street artists have turned the negative idea that graffiti was vandalism into powerful messages about community and culture.
Voiceless, How Language Defined my Homecoming
Walking through the streets of Tunisia no one looked at me weird, like a tourist or like I didn’t belong. Instead, I looked just like them. I was from here, after all. I am Tunisian. Well, that confidence in belonging soon wavered.
How Tourism Can Contribute to Ancestral Trauma
When traveling to a new country, it is very important to respect the culture you are visiting. You are just that, a visitor. It is not your culture, therefore you have no right to impose what you think should be going on.
From Here or There; Where is Home for Third Culture Kids?
Where is home, after all?
Tunisia, The Arab Woman’s Country: Where Women Have Gone and Where They Have Yet To Go
Stereotypically, when people think of an Arab, or better yet Muslim woman – the first misconceptions are that she has no rights and little choice in her life. In Tunisia, most of these misconceptions are false. That’s right, Tunisian women are viewed, by law, as equal to men. However, there are two types of laws in Tunisia.…
Mama Africa Welcoming me Home: Sfax, Tunisia
Hello Hola Aslema I am writing to you from the motherland, Mama Africa. It has been a week since I’ve returned home, that is, the land where I was born. I left Tunisia as a baby and it took 27 years for me to be able to return. Yet when I arrived, this land didn’t…
“But You’re White…” Why Your Perception of Me Doesn’t Erase My Heritage
I have always been a cultural enigma. No one ever knew where I was “from,” or the more popular question, “what are you?”. Because “human being” is never an acceptable answer.