Ever since World War II ended, tensions between the Jewish-majority state of Israel and it’s surrounding Arab neighbors, most namely Palestine, have been high. With both states in a perpetual struggle for land and recognition, the Israeli-Palestinian situation has often been described as the world’s “most intractable conflict”. Now, as ongoing fighting intensifies and the…
Earlier this month, one of my fellow bloggers, Ailin Li, wrote a post on Esther Honig’s “Before and After” project. I was very intrigued by Ailin’s post, so I decided to do a-bit more research on the “Before and After” project. I learned that Esther Honig is a human interest reporter who set out to find…
Let’s face it, August sucks. It is the month that hosts the arrival of back-to-school commercials and just reminds us that the effervescent of rays of summer are about to come to an end. To those more fortunate, August also tends to be the dreaded month of heat waves and unbearable weather. But here are…