Post image for Great White People Book Club: stumbling on our false cosmopolitanism

Global thinkers must navigate and find a way to bridge worlds that might make only a sinister kind of sense.

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Post image for Expat Harem editors on Turkish Hour TV, New York

Talking about the creation of the Expat Harem anthology and meeting readers during our marathon 49-day 10-state American book tour.

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Post image for Decomposing self: misplacing your most valuable expatriate possession

Life abroad can test our sense of self. Realizing we’re part of an adventuress continuum can restore it.

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by SMelamed

Trying to assimilate to the greeting norms of another culture leaves us bumping heads and stepping on toes.

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Post image for Remix culture: cross-pollinating with our pluralism

Where we come from counts, and by bringing what we uniquely have to offer, we cross-pollinate the culture.

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Ashman family name derived from this town

After four generations of immigration, a New World woman finds the mysteries of extended lineage often crop up as synchronicity, quirks of taste, wanderlust.

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Post image for About this site: making the psychic limbo of global citizens a productive state

Why do you need our help? Because liminal life is a bittersweet limbo — coming, going, never quite arriving. expat+HAREM embraces the unmoored and central reality of our globetrotting, multicultural, hybrid times.

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Post image for The dream of belonging, playing with cultural identity, and achieving a new sense of self: TurkishWIN talk

In a live-recorded talk, I map a 15 year journey from cultural disenfranchisement to a new expat+HAREM initiative: a private, educational community for global citizens, putting theory into practice.

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Post image for Istanbul: city+TREASURES

city+TREASURES: hunting troves of art, a nostalgic taste in food, the purifying and ecstatic rituals of ancient health and faith, and this hilltown’s springtime beauty.

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Post image for Creatives surviving & thriving abroad: lowering barriers and raising your game

Technology and the times both lower the barrier for writers abroad, and raise our game. Now we’re producers, directors, engineers of content.

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