It’s been a good month for traveling to new places. A year ago if I’d written that here, it would meant that I was biking, hiking, or jetting off to new exotic lands where they put a lot of cumin on the falafel (like the Palestinians in Nazareth). This year it means two separate trips […]

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What does it look like to have 100,000 people chanting and circling around a state capitol building? When it’s Wisconsin’s capitol, it looks a lot like a national protest against the troop surge in Washington D.C. Sure, our square is smaller than theirs, but it sure was heartening to see so many thousands of people […]

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After two years of often mind-meltingly hot weather in the Middle East, I never knew how much I could miss leaping into almost-frozen water through a large hole cut through 2 foot thick ice. The Special Olympics Polar Plunge has more or less become an annual tradition for my family, with me starting it back […]

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In which Zach describes two days of the Wisconsin protests at the capitol. It seems that when activism strikes, it goes global – first in the Middle East and now here at home. However, regardless of how dark it seems here in America, we have to remember how much worse the protesters in the Arab world have it…

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The entire Arab world has united around the struggles in Tunisia and Egypt. Every day, I see dozens of posts on Facebook from my Arab friends in Jordan and Egypt, loudly denouncing Hosni Mubarak and his management of Egypt, the most populous Arab country which is arguable viewed by all Arabs as the beating heart […]

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I know that everyone makes mistakes, and a lot of people get into minor – or major – traffic accidents, but I thought it was ironic that I didn’t get into my first car accident until after I’d returned from two years in Amman, Jordan. Driving in the Middle East is universally derided, not just […]

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