I met Noa through Couchsurfing in October 2010 in Jerusalem, where she and her two flatmates hosted me in their apartment for several days. Since then Noa has moved to Tel Aviv, and I’ve seen her again on a couple occasions — a random encounter on a Tel Aviv sidewalk in 2013, and then again […]
Voices: Saro Saryan from Nagorno-Karabakh
I met Saro Saryan on a chilly September evening in 2016, when the taxi a friend and I were riding in pulled off a rough and torn-up road in Shushi, Nagorno-Karabakh, and into the drive of his home and guesthouse — called Saro’s Guesthouse — where we hoped he might have room for people with no reservations. […]
Voices: LeRoy Lawson from Tillamook, Oregon
Dr. LeRoy Lawson is originally from Tillamook, Oregon. He has served as President of Hope International University in Fullerton, California, as senior minister of Central Christian Church in Mesa, Arizona, and most recently as Professor of Christian Ministries at Emmanuel Christian Seminary in Johnson City, Tennessee. He has a Ph.D. in English. This is one way […]
Voices: Annika from Lapland, Finland
On September 29, 2013, I was wandering through the picturesque streets of Mostar, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in rounding one bend I saw the Crooked Bridge. It was mentioned in my guidebook: the centuries-old structure had been destroyed by a flood in 2000 and reconstructed the following year at the initiative of UNESCO. It’s […]