A few months ago, I gave a speech at a local university here in the Portland area. If you’re interested, you can listen to the full speech here. In short though, the goal was to talk to design students about who I am, a little bit about my history and… Read more
I’ve written quite a bit on Land of Marvels about my experiences growing up as an expat kid in Saudi Arabia and while truthfully, it took me a long time to come to terms about what that exactly meant in my life, especially as an adult, I can say now… Read more
20 years ago this Summer, my family left our home in Saudi Arabia. We packed up everything we owned in shipping containers, sent our furniture across the ocean on a boat that took months. We spent our final week in our home on the Persian Gulf saying goodbye to everyone… Read more
I’ve often talked here on Land of Marvels about my childhood growing up in the Middle East as an expat kid. And in the time I’ve written about my experiences here on my blog as an expat and then as a Third Culture Kid, moving back to the States, to… Read more
If you’re new here or not aware, I grew up in Saudi Arabia. I was born in an Arab hospital in Dammam, Saudi Arabia and lived there all throughout my childhood. It was home. It wasn’t until years later as a teenager in small town USA that I came across… Read more
I haven’t written anything for a while on my childhood in the Middle East, though for numerous reasons as of late it’s been on my mind a lot. Sometimes I wonder how my life would have been different had I not been born in Saudi Arabia and every time… Read more
I’ve talked before about my background and growing up in Middle East, my heritage as a third culture kid (TCK) and a bit about what my childhood was like abroad. But in the span of the last few weeks, I’ve been reading so many posts from other bloggers on their… Read more
If this title confuses you, just bear with me and I’ll provide a background on what I’m talking about. But to start, one of the things I hope to accomplish on this blog is to promote understanding & to negate ignorances. I think in order to do that, we need… Read more