Being a writer, one usually knows from the start what type of writer one wants to be, or at least strives to. General categories as academic, fiction, non-fiction or journalistic writing are fairly simple to choose. A writer may experiment at first, but at the end, the pen gravitates towards categories that fit one’s strength, interest, or more importantly, one’s purpose in writing in the first place. However, there’s a certain mystery as to how certain subjects hover towards a writer, almost as if wanting to find them to get a story told. Without such magic and mystery, writing would lose a large part of its charm…
Continue reading “On “Multilingual Learning” and “Beyond Shattered Glass””Stories in the Times of Corona
These are no ordinary times. I doubt anybody in their wildest dreams (even those behind movies that told a similar story to what is happening today) imagined that, a day would come when the world, would suddenly, stop. That our lives would be turned completely upside down; that nothing could remain like it used to be beyond the confines of our homes; and that very little would stay the same when life slowly comes back to how we used to know it. Continue reading “Stories in the Times of Corona”
In Just Six Words…
There are few other things that bring me as much happiness and fulfillment than as writing. The happiness it brings is both from how it allows me to express myself in all elegance, freedom and simplicity, as well as from the joy it brings to others readers and the bond that it invariably cements between us, writer and reader. No matter what the topic, no matter when and how and for who, writing is a mission, a cause, a means and an end in and of itself. Make of it what you want, interpret it as you wish, but never underestimate its power. Continue reading “In Just Six Words…”
Eye on the East 