The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

A couple of weekends ago I joined my flatmate and some friends on a guided tour of a neighborhood here in Brussels that has become notorious...

A few days ago on Facebook someone posted a link to a blogpost where an American man described his "discovery" of European women a...

Umberto Eco died. Damn. I received the news from Al-Jazeera, my main news source these days, and I was filled with sadness. I read The...

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remove...

When I first heard the term Lifestyle Migration I really didn't know what to make of it.   "Lifestyle" in English implies some...

“Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.” Salman Rushdie,  Imaginary Homelands: Essa...

Last night I finished Kimberly Kay Hoang's Dealing in Desire:  Ascendancy in Asia, Western Decline and the Hidden Currencies of Global S...