Status Updates From Pillars: How Muslim Friends...

“Making a life in a foreign context means examining the local culture, values and faith system, turning them over and over and deciding which pieces to adopt and which to let slide as intriguing but not for me. Making a life as an expatriate is not necessarily about living like a local but rather learning to be authentic and comfortable with the ambiguity of sometimes wearing a head scarf and sometimes not.”

these cross-cultural stories hit different than they did in grad school, God bless ‘em

looking forward to rereading this book, now in a cultural context with a lot more Muslim acquaintances, students, and friends