Greetings. I am an American girl from Washington, DC. In January 2005 I left home to spend 18 months living in Cairo, Egypt and then Beirut, Lebanon to learn Arabic and to work on my MA. I left Beirut 3 weeks before the war in Lebanon began in 2006. After two years back in the US, I've just returned to Lebanon. This blog tells the story of my time in Cairo, Beirut, Boston, DC, New Hampshire and now Beirut again. You can send an email to ria@post.harvard.edu if you'd like.
