Shared experiences have given me some of my best culture lessons. Shared loss of electricity, noisy parties, and broken water pipes made me less of an oddity in our building. As neighbors, we were inconvenienced, challenged and flooded together. A...

I had hardly dropped my suitcase at the Dubai guesthouse when I got the phone call. My husband and I had just enjoyed our school’s spring break in Egypt and were preparing to board our flight into Kabul the next day. It was my stepmother calling f...