TRAVEL ABROAD TIPS:  London for foodies.  More »

LANGUAGES:  Hindi will lead you beyond tourist traps into a real place with real people, whose lives and histories are diverse, complicated, and riveting.   More »

TRAVEL SAFETY:  Landslides trapped as many as 2,500 people in the town of Aguas Calientes, the base for trips to Machu Picchu.   More »

LIVING ABROAD:  Apparently, it's not easy for a Japanese woman-of-the-world to pair up with even the most progressive Japanese man.  More »

LANGUAGES:  Try these phrases on your Nigerian friends to gain quicker access into their world.  More »

STUDY ABROAD:  The greatest travel opportunity for this generation of students is to study abroad in the Islamic world.  More »

CULTURE:  There is a lot of subtext crammed into the nine-word question “Where in the Orient did you meet your wife?”  More »

TEACHING:  You accept one word answers like ‘haram,’ ‘Muscat’ or ‘change’ as legitimate responses to the question of ‘why?’  More »

STUDY ABROAD:  In comparison to the enormous blow to my ego and worldview that was one day in Beijing, that year in Western Europe was an afternoon drinking wine in the park.   More »

LIVING ABROAD:  I'm looking for stories about expats exploring the complicated terrain of cultural differences, attempting to come into some sort of a mutual understanding.   More »

TRAVEL ABROAD:  Sometimes, I thought, all you really need to do is see; sometimes the political and social and economic realities are there laid out in everyday life and landscape and you can read them simply by being present.  More »

TRAVEL ABROAD:  Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines continues to dock luxury cruise liners at private beach resorts in Haiti, where tourists jet ski while the earthquake disaster effort ensues.   More »

LIVING ABROAD:  There's the sense of creative abandon abroad, the liberation from whatever aesthetic, social, cultural norms might reign in the artist in at home. To put it very simply: you've just got to pay more attention living overseas. And that's what artists do - pay close attention to the world, and then remake it.   More »

TRAVEL ABROAD:  Whether you go and actually see the poverty of India up close, it will be there nonetheless. Every night as you fall asleep in your warm, comfortable and safe bed in North America, thousands, even millions, of people are waking up on the sidewalks of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. Whether you go or not will not prevent this from happening.  More »

LIVING ABROAD:  A day in the life of an English teacher in Thailand.  More »

CULTURE:  We got out of the bus in Mitla, blinking, stumbling, little swirls of dust rising around our feet, plunk, plunk, plunk, one gringo after another plunking out of the bus like penguins wandering dazed out of a cave under the watchful eyes of zoo-goers. The sun was high and hot at 10 a.m. and we were standing on the side of the road in a dusty pueblo.   More »

TEACHING:  A day in the life of an English teacher in Osaka, Japan.  More »

LIVING ABROAD:  Every day I get called out as a foreigner, and as a result, I'm no stranger to The Nod.   More »