LANGUISHING: A NAME FOR THE BLAH YOU FEEL IN 2021
During this past year, whenever someone checks up on me asking me how I’ve been doing, I reply with a simple ‘I’m fine’ and move on to ask them about…
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Aline Krioghlian
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THE SUSTAINABLE CITY
Coming from an Arab country, Lebanon, and moving to Dubai for a few years was a fascinating experience for me. The feeling was completely normal among many expats to experience…
ROBOGEE: HOPE FOR REFUGEES
Refugees are often described as helpless people with no future, scary or even capable of committing crimes, but the misinformation and stereotypes are far from the truth. In reality, refugees…
WTF IS HAPPENING IN ARMENIA?
I can’t believe I am writing yet another article about the tragedies happening in my beloved countries. You see, I have two identities, two nationalities, two home countries; I call…
PLAYING WITH FIRE
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard the shocking things 2020 has been throwing at us so far; a pandemic, explosions, wildfires, the list goes on. A while…
HOW TO STAY SANE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
With this global pandemic, our everyday life has changed: our normal ways of getting around, going to work, going to school, meeting people, going to restaurants, bars, cinemas, it all…
THE WANDERLUST GENERATION
As I’m sitting here in my living room in Spain when a global pandemic has taken the world by storm, I am reminiscing about all those days I could make…
Breaking the barriers of taste and gender
Have you ever heard the term ‘heterofriendly’? I’m sure you’ve heard ‘gay friendly’ which means ‘being kind to gays’. Well, you can imagine its meaning and the powerful message that…