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Muslim Fear: How Teaching In Oman Taught Me The Shades Of Islam

.post .storycontent .subtitle { width: 52%; float: left; margin-right: 3%;} With Muslim bashing on the rise in the West, what do young Muslims think of their traditional culture and religion?

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Muslim Fear: How Teaching In Oman Taught Me The Shades Of Islam

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If you’ve never heard of Oman you’re not alone.

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Can Your Grandparents Teach You About Love?

Can Your Grandparents Teach You About Love?

One of my favorite singers, Robbie Williams, complains in one of his songs that love is getting too cynical, while passion is just physical.

Each of us has a different experience related to both love and passion. If we look carefully at what is happening in the world around us at this moment, and especially in the Western hemisphere, one can conclude that the concept of love is undergoing serious changes.

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Divine Inspiration: How Travel Teaches Us To Appreciate Humanity

Divine Inspiration: How Travel Teaches Us To Appreciate Humanity

Knowing ourselves and our communities, and seeing them in unison, is the first step in fostering the divine world spirit.

A wise Indian man once said to me, “Perfection is a rare and sporadic event.” For travelers especially, this rings true.

From a traveler’s perspective, every foreign country is a chance for something to go ridiculously, horribly amok.

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How To Learn Chinese: Student Versus Teacher

How To Learn Chinese: Student Versus Teacher

During my first class teaching English in Taiwan, my student Christine came up to me with an armload of Chinese books, and hand-calligraphed New Year??s scrolls.

She also provided an invitation for language exchange and a smile, which can only be described as the Cheshire cat??s official welcome to Asia.

Cats are lucky in Taiwan, I??d heard, and I now believe this to be true - along with the idea that relationships proceed a lot more quickly when you speak each other??s languages.

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