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Do You Shampoo? Curry? You Can Thank Sake Dean Mahomed – On Influential Muslims
I’m endlessly fascinated by the storied history and culture of food. If you think about it food, with all those various customs, colloquial nuances, simple and complex, erotic and understated, is truly our greatest and most intimate experience with the world around us.
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On the Road Less Traveled : A Personal Essay on the Path of Most Resistance and the Adventure That is Life.
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Don’t be victimized by the culture of fear. Our planet is waiting to be explored, to reveal it’s secrets to you, to me, to any who dare ask, it will expose you to the raw truths of life. To the quarks of distant cultures and alien tongues. To disgusting foods and delicious cuisines, to dangerous…
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Interview with Maria Rochelle
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Get to know Nicholas over this discussion on travel, literature, writing, life, love and losing oneself in the beautiful madness of modern life.
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On Arabic Sweets and the Middle East: Kunafa
All of these things are true… I had been in Jordan for several weeks and my love affair with Arabian sweets had reached a lofty peak. In fact, I would begin and end each day with a platter of pastries, smothered in honeys and syrups that would flood through heaps of pistachios on my plate. Then it happened… I…
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Sketching Sights: Istanbul, City on the Edge (Art. Travel. Writing. Islam. Architecture)
Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, asia, Backpacking, Blogging, City Guide, Culture, Europe, foodie, history, Istanbul, Middle East, Poetry, Sketching Sites, Travel, travel writing, Turkey, WatercolorAdventure, Art, artist, Asia, backpacker, Backpacking, bosphorus, bosporus, Byzantine, Byzantium, Constantinople, cruise, culture, Drawing, Europe, Hagia Sophia, History, islam, Istanbul, middle east, mosque, ottoman, painting, Poem, roman, sketching, strait of bosphorus, travel, Travel Blog, travel blogger, travel writer, travel writing, Traveling, Turkey, wanderlust, watercolorThe Bosphorus splits Istanbul in two parts. A rift in the madness of Europe and Asia, drifting between bodies of fresh and salt water cooling the heated passion of a most ancient urban jungle. The hot, hot, heat of human movement generates organized chaos as this great strait, this rift, cushions the blow, keeping this…
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From the Rooftops of Granada — an excerpt from my manuscript for ‘The Outsider.’ A Confessional Memoir/Novel on Identity, Love, Travel and Revolution in the Arab Spring.
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I mean, it’s not cheating if nothing happens. Oh, but emotions run deep. Which begs the question: What’s worse, an emotional or a physical affair?
Nicholas Andriani Rankin, the Wandering Scholar 