“Salaam ‘alaykum!,” we’re greeted at the train station in Alexandria. The man who says it, Mohammad Abdallah, was born and raised in the Sudan but lives in Egypt and holds a U.S. passport. In the early 1990’s, when he was a young immigrant studying in America, he lived with my friends’ family in Broomfield, Colo., [...]

It’s my first visit to the Arab Muslim world, and I landed in the middle of the Holy Month of Ramadan, stepping out of the airport just in time to hear the Call to Prayer boom across the city from the mosque speakers. From our hotel in downtown Cairo, we catch a birds-eye view of [...]

From Germany I fly home to Boulder and entertain my parents for their one-week visit to the Colorado Rockies. The day they leave I travel with some friends to northern Idaho, where we watch a quintessential small-town Americana Fourth of July street parade, complete with lemonade and fireworks. The next day, we drive to a [...]