Middle East Archives - PocketCultures

September 9, 2011

Dear S. A few days ago I arrived in Basra – upon stepping out of the plane, [...]

July 21, 2011

Qusay is a Saudi Arabian engineer from Jeddah, and his blog Qusay Today is a mixture of [...]

February 8, 2011

And Far Away has been going for so long (six and a half years to be exact) [...]

September 14, 2010

Iraq is still in the news a lot, but many reports have a military angle. How can [...]

July 22, 2010

Little Pink Strawberries is written by Noor, who is originally from East Tennessee but now lives with [...]

December 24, 2009

This week we’re featuring two Yemeni bloggers who write about life in their country. Most of their [...]

December 14, 2009

We often refer to ‘The Middle East’ as one region, but it is actually made up of [...]

October 30, 2009

Thanks to Najma for sharing these kebabs on the barbeque from Iraq. Do you want to share [...]

September 18, 2009

This colourful photo is by This Photographer. Thanks for sharing! This Persian dish is called Tahchin, and [...]

July 30, 2009

When you think of Turkey what do you think? Istanbul? Or maybe holidays on the Mediterranean coast? [...]

June 4, 2009

Sara describes herself as ‘An Egyptian, extremely diversified, super procrastinator chocolate junkie with a memory span of [...]

March 25, 2009

American Bedu is Carol, a former American diplomat who resigned to marry her Saudi husband. Now she [...]

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