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By CATHERINE SALTER BAYAR
“You’ll stay in this business just like I will until we’re too old to get other work,” a merchandiser told me after a gluttonous Michelin-star dinner. We were capping a stressful New York fashion week and she had enough...
By JOCELYN EIKENBURG
Ailin sings a fierce karaoke song, loves pink pastel T-shirts, paints squiggly green snakes, and isn’t afraid to argue with a bus driver. I know her well — because Ailin is me, when I’m in China.
When you live in another country...
By TARA LUTMAN AĞAÇAYAK
If marriage is the smallest unit of a community, then cross-cultural couples are ambassadors, peace-makers, and change-agents.
When I married my Turkish husband five months after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, we...
Mirror in Topkapı harem by A. Ashman
By ANASTASIA ASHMAN
Since the Ottoman royal harems were filled with women from the Mediterranean and the Baltic — Italian families even casting their daughters on the Adriatic to be picked up by the sultan’s...
By KAREN ARMSTRONG
Life design for expat women is absolutely necessary due to the unique factors in our lives: location, language skills, cultural integration and local laws, to name a few.
In the spring of 1995, I was in Rome doing a semester study...
Selected thought-provoking essays for travelers of the mind and travelers of the world who have experiences few can appreciate -- and now there's a place for us to visit to share the delicious global cultural we miss in our regular lives.
