Loss in the Gaza Strip extends well beyond the loss of lives.

Two projects of revival converged on this trip: the preservation of Jordan's nature for tourist enjoyment, and the post-Gaza reclamation of traditional Palestinian embroidery practices.

Part 2 on the Basalt City: While the residential neighborhoods are what makes Umm Al Jimaal unique for archaeologists, its monumental architecture also still stands.

Part 1 on the Basalt City: Rome has monumental buildings like the Colosseum and Athens the Parthenon, but even Petra only has temples and no residential buildings. Umm Al Jimaal has preserved over …

I wasn’t sure I understood the appeal of “flash fiction” – the challenge to tell a complete story in a thousand words or less – until Gaza.

The last time I lived in Jordan, the Wadi Dana trail was at the top of my places I wanted to see, but the only way to get there was a rental car, which would have involved driving in Amman, which w…

I knew wasta (connections) would play a crucial role in participant recruitment for my dissertation data collection. I underestimated how outsized the role of my Peace Corps wasta would be.

Most of Jordan is a high, flat plateau of rocky desert, sometimes sandy to the south and east. Except the west side, from the Dead Sea, almost straight up into the mountains.

There is nowhere in Jordan I’d rather visit in March or April than the northeastern heights, and particularly the two dozen centuries of ruins at Umm Qais, ancient Gadara.

Three short pieces of mine – one flash fiction and two poems – are being published in the #Genocide Anthology from Culture Cult Press out of Kolkata, India.

To be honest, I’ve been rolling #MuslimWomensDay over from bullet journal to bullet journal, year after year, without actually understanding what it is. And this year, its founder says it&#82…