Tag: expat
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Do Refugees Benefit from Participating In UN Research Studies? (Part 2)
What I Learned From Interviewing Syrian Refugee Families In Jordan This is Part 2 of my story about interviewing a Syrian refugee family for a UN research study I worked on in Jordan a few years ago. Read Part 1 here: Do Refugees Benefit From Participating In UN Research Studies? (Part 1) In Part 1, I…
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Do Refugees Benefit From Participating In UN Research Studies? (Part 1)
What I Learned From Interviewing Syrian Refugees In Jordan CONTENT WARNING: This piece contains graphic language describing Syrian war killings. Feel free to opt out and read last week’s post or my most read post instead! July 2019-Northern Jordan The woman, in black niqab with only her eyes showing, handed off her newborn baby girl…
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What I Appreciate About Life In The US After Living Overseas
5 Things I Loved In 2022 January 2023-Milwaukee, Wisconsin As you probably know by now, I spent the last seven years living in Jordan (with a strange, brief stint back in the states in the early COVID days. More on that weird time later). After I moved back to Boston last April, I had a…
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What Immigration Forms Don’t Capture About Love & Marriage
December 2020-Amman, Jordan It is morning again. The sun is mercifully warm enough, for December, when I sit directly in it. There are only two times I can feel warm in a day: when sitting in the morning sun, next to my husband who’s wearing his blue pajamas, looking for Palestine sunbirds out the window,…
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Expat Life As Seen by a Newcomer Vs. A Cynic
And The Expat Street Cred Score One year after moving from the US to Amman, Jordan One of the things I most appreciate about living overseas: everyone is interesting. Everyone has some story to tell or is doing some interesting work. Life in Amman can be hard, dusty, and sometimes exhausting. But it is also…
Curious Georgie 
–مرحبا سلام Thank you so much, what a lovely comment to receive! I think you’re right; we can’t always be…