Tag: middle east
The Harvard University campus — the whole Boston area, in fact — is filled with world class museums. The Fogg, the Busch Reisinger, the Museum of Fine Arts, the …
The historic, holy city of Jerusalem has plenty of quirks making it unique. For starters, the oldest part is split into four distinct quarters by religion and ethnicity. After …
What they call the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi is, in my opinion, a misnomer. Grand just seems to fall short as a description. The full name is the …
It’s a hot and sunny Galilee day, 40 A.D. A fisherman wearing a pair of leather sandals casts out a net from a boat into the murky, calm waters …
Changing people’s perceptions about travel to the Middle East can be a full-time job. No matter what anyone says, there will still be plenty who think that Dubai, the …
A destination with the chaos of contrast is not nearly as soothing to the brain as, say, going from one neat, tidy, and well-ordered New England village to another, …
Is it possible to overcome negative imagery and frightening news coverage in order to convince people that it’s not only OK, but well worth their time to travel to …
The mosques are exquisite examples of Islamic architecture, particularly in Istanbul and in Turkey’s largest city you’ll find one round each corner. Five times a day, the haunting call to prayer …
If you’re reading this on a Monday feeling a bit hung over, you’re had to work hard to get to that state in many of the countries featured in …
I flew Qatar Airways for the first time last year to speak at a Malaysian tourism blogging conference in Kuala Lumpur. The Gulf States in the Middle East are …
Historically rich and ethnically diverse, Jeddah is a city of contrasts. Centuries old building made of coral limestone and seashells gathered from the reefs of the Red Sea sit alongside …
The Sultanate of Oman has a lovely coast line, with beaches and diving and all that, but the country stretches inland quite a ways, far from the coast. And, …