In Search Of Hemingway May 11, 2018
“Papa was a rolling stone. Wherever he laid his hat was his home.” —The Temptations When Ernesto “Papa” Hemingway “laid his hat” in Cuba, it became his “home” for over 20 years. I needed to know why. I grew up in the 1950s, the child of upper-middle-class parents who had master’s degrees and were accomplished […] The post In Search Of Hemingway appeared firs […]
Xi’an, The Great Mosque and The Muslim Quarter April 25, 2018
Photos courtesy of Omar Shafi Khan Fresh off the defense of my doctoral dissertation, my husband and I took a trip to China. I was presenting research at a journalism school in Shanghai. It was my husband and my first time in the country, so we spent our free time exploring the culture and history […] The post Xi’an, The Great Mosque and The Muslim Quarter a […]
Make sure to “hide your power level” April 5, 2018
The ugliest instances of today’s far-right resurgence — Charlottesville, the Muslim ban, the Quebec City mosque shooting, the surge in hate crimes, etc. — often belie a more fundamental urge from which all such examples ultimately spring: an ever-breathing struggle to smuggle fascist, racist and discredited ideas back into the mainstream. There are several w […]
A Paradise in Crisis March 12, 2018
The Male International Airport is unlike anywhere else in the Republic of the Maldives. When I landed in September, I saw hijab-clad women performing security checks on European women with bikinis visible from under their clothes. Bearded men were praying on their mats in the midst of sunburnt revelers with liquor on their breath. But, […] The post A Paradis […]
Baseball in Cuba – It’s a Home Run! March 7, 2018
There are many religions practiced in Cuba, but the universal religion is baseball. Cuba and baseball have an inseparable history. The game was first introduced to the island by students returning home from the U.S. in the 1860s, and it became an instant hit (no pun intended). My wife Nancy and I recently visited this […] The post Baseball in Cuba – It’s a H […]

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