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When Love Meets War
by Erika Williams
A wedding celebration is something most couples plan down to the last perfectly executed detail. Things were no different for Chadi, from Lebanon, and Macarena Sarraf of Argentina — until the bombing began.
Chadi and Macarena met in Nigeria while [...]
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War and Peace
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On a Lebanese Night
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In order to preserve the cultural traditions of my husband, Chadi and I decided to celebrate a church wedding in an old cloister up on a beautiful bluff overlooking the Mediterranean Sea located in Northern Lebanon. We chose July 8th as our wedding date, and went full speed ahead with the plans. Thanks to Chadi’s [...]
In the Holy Land
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| View Show | Create Your OwnBefore celebrating my church wedding in Northern Lebanon on July 8th 2006, my parents and I decided to take a brief holiday in Jordan. It has been a dream of theirs to travel to Jordan and visit the lost city of Petra, featured so prominently in [...]
The Land of the Phoenicians
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In the fall of 1999, fourteen University students from the California Sate Polytechnic University in Pomona were selected to represent the University at the National Model United Nations Conference in New York City. Half of the individuals selected had already served on the 1998 team which received honored recognition for its work at the Conference. [...]
Backpacking through the Middle East
Posted in Mid East, Travel Journal on November 30, 2006 | 1 Comment »
2000 was an awe-inspiring year for the world, but an especially enlightening year for a group of Californians studying abroad in Spain. After completing our 1-year study abroad program at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, four friends and I decided to book an “around the Middle East” plane ticket for students. On board were three [...]
