Because I do in fact enjoy socializing with expatriates such as myself, I have become, in a way, a tourist savant. My neighborhood plays home to several large and glitzy hotels frequented by travelers the world over. Large busses line up outside these hotels, loading and unloading what I can only describe as sightseeing cattle—hundreds and hundreds of similarly-pale individuals who, like mosquitoes, appear to be drawn to brig (more…)

Did you know that many college admissions boards Google prospective students these days? It’s true and what they find there may work for you or against you. Too many potential students these days are posting photos and stories of themselves in compromising situations bragging about illicit activities and bad behavior. This doesn’t sit well with college boards or future potential employers, for that matter. If you have posted an (more…)

We love to tell stories as part of our daily conversation. When we want to convey an important thought, we make use of stories for people to relate to it. Before kids hit the sack, we condition their minds through stories. Even when making a presentation, we cite tales or stories that prove a finding or a hypothesis to be worth accepting. These things that we pass on from one person to another have been going on for centuries. (more…)

Stories have played a major role in all our lives. When we were small children we looked forward to bedtime when we would hear a story from a parent. If we were not so lucky, we would hear a story at school. Those of us who went to Sunday school heard stories from the Bible that were meant to educate us, but often scared us into submission. Sadly the different layers of the Bible stories are hardly ever explained to us. Em (more…)

We all have a gazillion stories that float through out our psyche. We have stories about our childhood. We have stories about relationships. We have stories about lots of different experiences. Then, there are the stories that we carry about friends, coworkers, our ancestry, our community, our culture, and other people’s cultures.

We also have “default” stories … these are the ones that we tend to fall back (more…)

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Talhah ibn Ubaydullah

Returning to Makkah in haste after a trading trip to Syria, Talha (more…)

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