Tag: memoir
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Day In The Life 1: The Zoo
I arrive to the office at 7:45 with my to-go coffee in hand, from Rumi, my favorite café down the street. Americano, a little bit of milk. It’s one of those mornings I enjoy getting to the office early before anyone else is around, with a nice coffee, and getting (more…)
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Why I Moved Halfway Across The Globe At 22
When Relief Work Global offered me a job right out of college, I was very excited. I had interned with them when I was a junior, studying abroad for a semester in Amman, Jordan. I had really loved my internship, loved the organization and the people and the mission. Besides (more…)
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If It Was Just The War
Medford, MA – April 2020 It is hard to watch COVID-19 unfold everywhere because you know it will get worse, and there is nothing you can do. I feel helpless watching the case numbers go up and up. The tree outside my window is blooming with tiny white flowers. It’s (more…)
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Your Husband or Your Home
Woburn, MA – May 2020 As I wrote last week, at the end of 2019 I moved back to the US after living in Jordan for four years. I moved in with my sister and other housemates in Medford, MA, a suburb of Boston. About two months later, I married (more…)
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The Day Rafat Left for Canada
Zaatari Camp and Amman, Jordan – 2018 Rafat and I are sitting on the bench outside the kitchen trailer. It’s sunny and warm – April. Zaatari is just a massive trailer city on an otherwise empty stretch of desert flat land, so the afternoon sun always beats down and makes (more…)
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