Global Culture

Trini women tend to carry themselves with an air of confidence.  You kind of need it to carry off multiple characteristics in a society that tends to not know how to characterise you.  Are you Black?  White?  Indian? A cousin […]

Turn your expatriate chapter in a time for renewal, a time to broaden your horizons and create a vibrantly positive experience. Kelly left her job and the buzzing life of Manhattan to follow her spouse in Geneva. Now, alone in […]

  Not “Amazon” like the online shopping website, but the actual South American jungle.   Ann Street Studio, a New York couple who considers themselves “visual storytellers” embark on a photo journey through the Amazon Rainforest.   “After a refreshing […]

    While his face remains anonymous, his art is recognized worldwide. Banksy is a street artist whose art ranges from stencil graffiti on urban walls to conceptual sculpture and even film. His film, Exit Through the Gift Shop was […]

My dad’s high school friend is Muslim.  His friend had a new baby girl and invited us to a ceremony called an Aqiqah, a traditional ceremony to name a new baby. It is performed seven, 14, or 21 days after […]

Zinedine Zidane, Karim Benzema, Gonzalo Higuain, Mesut Ozil, Kevin-Prince Boateng and Benoit Assou-Ekotto. What do these World Cup players have in common? All these players are representing to play for a country that they are not originally from.     […]

“Trailing Spouses” is often used to describe women and men who follow their spouses on international assignments. For some this is an ideal situation, for others it is a forced choice… In this new series of articles we explore the […]

Imagine hiking nearly 8 thousand feet to a summit overlooking a breathtaking, foreign land. You might need to catch your breath for more than one reason. While the view at Machu Picchu would be incredible, a friend once described her […]