A few weeks ago a friend and I went on a short trip to Ourense, in Galicia. Galicia is the…
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Taken from Morocco in the late 1400s, Melilla is a small city on its northern coast, located just 100 kilometers…
I have lived in Spain now for more than 11 years, and a little while ago I realized that out…
A Map of Home, Randa Jarrar Jarrar’s novel is a coming-of-age story of a half Palestinian, half Egyptian girl, Nidali,…
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This post is titled ‘at long last’ because one of my dear friends and I have been talking about visiting…
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