Three Palestinian women. Three timelines. Three points of view. 1990. Palestine. Sixteen-year-old Isra is married off to Adam, an older man who lives in Brooklyn, New York. It’s an arranged marriage that marks the beginning of her new life—and the loss of the one she knew. 1990. Brooklyn. Farida, Adam’s mother, lives with the couple […]
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What My Mother Taught Me About Money (And Why It Still Matters Today) With Mother’s Day around the corner, I find myself thinking a lot about my mom. I’ve been meaning to write about her for a long time—not just a blog article, but maybe even a short e-book to capture the lessons she taught
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There are already so many blogs out there that you might wonder—why would anyone, in their right mind, start another one? I asked myself a lot of questions before taking the plunge: Will my blog find a place in the already saturated bookish blogosphere? Will people actually be interested in reading my articles? What difference
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