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””“Resilience”
This is the second in a series of four thematic Lebanon-related posts, based on a conversation between the author and a Lebanese citizen who preferred to remain anonymous. The first post was on politics and the parliamentary elections and the third on the environment.
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Eye on the East (EOTE): So where were we?
Lebanese Citizen (LC): I had started talking about garbage and the economy, but you stopped me because you wanted to grab a drink. Continue reading ““Resilience””
Eye on the East 