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August means the first day of university for many students, at least in North America. You could be attending for the first time, starting your senior year, or coming back as a non-traditional student. The rules for success are the same: show up. That’s right �� Woody Allen is credited with the saying ��80% of […]

I’ve made Black Bean Quinoa Burgers before as meat alternatives. Tuna burgers take your patty to a whole new level. You may want to add breadcrumbs and an extra egg like I had to do to get a comparable thickness and consistency. They were so delicious, I ate them with salsa and no bun.

Modesty is the hot topic this summer (pun intended) in Doha. From the modesty campaign, where people, mostly women, give correctional cards in public to those who they feel are in violation, to the recent censure of a group of Qatari youth on a trip in the Amazon, everyone, expats and locals, are talking about […]

Last week I wrote about the criticism a group of Qatari youth received for traveling to Brazil. To be more precise, traveling to Brazil, in a mixed group of men and women, where the females were photographed without veils or wearing traditional dress. On Wednesday I invited us to ruminate on who defined Islam: the […]

The secret to succulent salmon? Whether on the grill, or in the oven, season it with salt, pepper, dill, butter, lemon slices, whatever, wrap in foil, then cook for 30 minutes. Viola! Tender fish that falls onto your fork.

Picture this: young Arab women from a small state traveling to the Amazon to help build a school. And in the first trip update, people commenting that they are behaving unislamically. That’s what happened this week when a short video of a group of 7 young Qataris was posted on Facebook with some of the […]

You’re back at your desk, or maybe like me, back in your house, starting the yawning mouths of 7 suitcases in the zipper. The urge is strong: to flee out the door and escape back into vacation (or as the Europeans call it “holiday��) land where food is always hot and laundry clean. But your […]

I know what you’re going to say. Beets! Really? But trust me, if you’ve never had marinated beets (which I can’t say that I had before this) this Kale Beet Quinoa Salad will be a revelation. Start them first because the roasting does take a while (50 minutes) but you can get the rest together […]

Semite refers to a group of related languages in Asia, now commonly referred to as the Holy Land in the Middle East. Arabic is one of those languages. Arabs are Semites. Which should all give us pause when we see images like the one tweeted by the Israeli embassy in Ireland last week. They did […]