No, Frozen is not my favorite Disney movie, but it is clever in a lot of ways, especially the music. “Love is an Open Door” is one of the so

The discrimination I grew up with in the U.S. for two decades was different than the discrimination in Qatar because the two countries have

In the U.S., no matter how often we claim the whole “melting pot” shtick, residents of non-white backgrounds always wind up being otherized.

As is the case in many Arab countries, Qatar had a very prominent beauty & makeup scene. So, today we’re going to talk about just a few

Let’s discuss the black hair situation in Qatar. How did local black people wear their hair? How did I wear my hair? How did people react to

What was VCUQ like compared to VCU? How was the 20th anniversary? How was graduation? What was it like as an exchange student? Boy, there wa

"What was it like seeing so many people who look like you?" "You went to the motherland! How was it?!" "What was it

My Moroccan adventure was technically an “arts field study” hosted by the design departments of VCUarts. As you can imagine, the goal of the

Wait . . . what? The languages spoken in Morocco are Arabic and French with some Berber Amazigh scattered here and there. That said, when it

I visited 5 cities over the course of 10 days in Morocco. A quick Google search can give you infinite more detail about every city and lists