Have you ever been in a room where the sunlight reflects in such a way that it looks like the entire place is soaked in gold? That was what the living room of my apartment in Amman looked like every afternoon...

It is impossible to see the world as good. I have tried looking at it from every angle, twisting and turning it over in the palm of my hand. I have gazed up at the world from a child’s point of view,...

Today I was called a bad writer. Actually, someone told me they were confused why I had a column at all because I wasn’t very good. I smiled at first, and he retorted that I really shouldn’t do...

I was in Cali, Colombia — a city less than 500 miles from the border between Venezuela and Colombia — when reports of explosions in Caracas, Venezuela began circulating. By the time I had made it back...

It rained the day before my 20th birthday. The sky opened and a battle commenced above the clouds, thunder accompanied by flashes of moments now lost. It felt poetic — how the anger, frustration and...