The Patchwork Cloak of Kamal Bey Wins a 2026 IPPY Award
My travel memoir The Patchwork Cloak of Kamal Bey: An East-West Memoir has won a 2026 Independent Publisher Book Award, also known as an IPPY.
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Is there a Better Way to Rank Olympic Medal Counts?
When Olympic medal counts are ranked on a per capita basis, rather than accumulations of gold, a new cohort of countries emerge as “winners.”
Continue reading →Adventures in Uyghur Cuisine: Food of the Silk Road
Uyghur cuisine, from Muslim Western China, offers a variety of dishes combining Middle Eastern, Central Asian and East Asian influences.
Continue reading →What Cultural Differences Reveal About How We Think
A story about immigrant Syrian home cooks in Canada reveals how cultural differences shape our thinking, and what we can learn from other ways of seeing the world.
Continue reading →Canada’s Dark Secret: An Al Jazeera Documentary on Residential Schools
I’m currently working as the producer on ‘Canada’s Dark Secret’, an Al Jazeera English documentary on Canada’s residential school system.
Continue reading →Dialogue
I found an interesting and relevant quote by the 20th century German-Jewish philosopher, Martin Buber.
Continue reading →The Sufis
Idries Shah’s The Sufis explores an immemorial wisdom tradition best-known for its connections with Islam, but which both predates and goes beyond it.
Continue reading →Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Some of the best learning situations about culture stem from the misunderstandings that arise when people from different cultures collide.
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