by rchakaki | Jan 4, 2011 | Recollections
Everyone in my family spoke Arabic, and they spoke it with a relatively uniform accent. Therefore references to our Turkish, Kurdish, North African heritage didn’t really make sense to me until later in life. When I visited my great maternal aunt (Khalto...
by rchakaki | Jan 1, 2011 | Recollections
Allan de Botton’s book Status Anxiety is my favorite read. I read it at age 32; it explained feelings of discomfort, displacement, social anxieties and the yearning to belong. At age four, my mother and I traveled from Damascus, Syria to Khobar, Saudi Arabia to...
