Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world…we walked into Rick’s Cafe (most of us) having never seen Casablanca. The movie from the 1940s froze an image of Morocco’s largest city in time, and the idea or myth of Morocco has become more...
Not long after arriving in Hong Kong, we were on a bus to a local school to do some teaching. Armed with nothing more than the simplest phrase in the book (Hello/ “Néih hóu”), any surprise could be waiting. At home, we can rely on our language, our...