Expat life in Palestine

I’m not much of a shopper, but as an expat and a traveler I love wandering around foreign markets — the big sprawling, smelly ones in Africa, the small village …

Dear Expats, Travelers, Globetrotters and Other Friends, As many of you know, once a week I post a story about one of my expat-life (mis)adventures. This week I succumb to …

Feeling incompetent is a humbling experience most expats are familiar with. At home you might feel incompetent when you don’t know how to program your space-age electronic equipment, but living …

Many people enjoy living the expat life in the Middle East, but Ramallah, Palestine, is not generally known to be an expat haven. However, an American foreign aid project brought …

When we lived in Ramallah, the West Bank, where my spouse worked on a USA foreign aid project, I loved going into the Old City of Jerusalem on occasion and …