Author: belongingmag

A Tarantella story – from Liguria to Melbourne

FOLK DANCING: Barbara Amalberti tells us about her folk dancing journey from Liguria, Italy, to a Tarantella school in Melbourne, Australia.

CROSS-CULTURAL HEALTH: Vinh Tran discusses his experiences of communicating in cross-cultural settings as a doctor.

THOUGHT PIECE: Abeir Soukieh discusses the distorted physical standards imposed on Arab women in North American film.

POEM: In his first English-language poem, Sanjaya Fernando describes how a smile can lead to lasting connections between culturally-different people.

INTERVIEW: Vesna Cvjetićanin talks with be:longing about nostalgia and its role in the migrant experience.

POEM: Jasmine Soukieh discusses the cumulative effects of persistent othering.

RECIPE: Food writer Emiko Davies shares with us a reflection and recipe from her third cookbook, Tortellini at Midnight.

POEM: Kaya Lattimore explores her bloodline in the stories of her ancestors, seeking out the breadth and depth of her history.

REFLECTION: Marwa Rida remembers all her grandma embodied while Marwa was growing up in Egypt and how much of it she’s carried with her to Australia.

THOUGHT PIECE: Abeir Soukieh discusses the hypocrisies and double-standards encountered by minorities living across cultures.