According to The Telegraph,  Sweden is among the top ten of coffee consumers in the world. It is true, this black gold is second to water over here. I remember growing up and even now, after having traveled anywhere- coming home to me was/is landing in Arlanda and being greeted by the smell of wood…

In front of my building there is a small square and that small square seems to fit the entire world in it. To the left of the square we have a group of Azerbaijani brothers that have opened a little oriental market. To the right of the square there is an Afghani family that has…

Growing up my mother raised me on stories of her childhood in Egypt. Stories of her playing with her cousins which often resulted in mischief, stories of her days in my great grandmother’s farm, stories of her growing up in this wondrous land of golden sun and fecund fields. Her childhood was very different than…