CROSS-CULTURAL HEALTH: Vinh Tran discusses his experiences of communicating in cross-cultural settings as a doctor.
Category: Thoughts + Stories
‘But you don’t look Lebanese’ is not a compliment and some thoughts on the casting of Princess Jasmine in Aladdin ‘19.
THOUGHT PIECE: Abeir Soukieh discusses the distorted physical standards imposed on Arab women in North American film.
INTERVIEW – Talking migration and nostalgia with Vesna Cvjetićanin
INTERVIEW: Vesna Cvjetićanin talks with be:longing about nostalgia and its role in the migrant experience.
Remembering an amazing lady during ‘The Time of Giving’
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.
Foreigners learning a foreign language
THOUGHT PIECE: Abeir Soukieh discusses the hypocrisies and double-standards encountered by minorities living across cultures.
Year two of be:longing – Looking back and looking forward
YEAR IN REVIEW: Editors-in-Chief of be:longing, Dunja and Jasmine, reflect on the publication’s second year.
Flying home
THOUGHT PIECE: Harry Saddler considers the interconnectedness of our world through a discussion of the eastern curlew’s migration.
Gratitude
REFLECTION: Marwa Rida brings us an extract from her gratitude journal, which was inspired by a recent, deeply honest conversation.
Interview – Talking “Jurassica” with director Bridget Balodis
INTERVIEW: Dunja Cvjetićanin chats with Bridget Balodis, director of “Jurassica”, a multilingual play exploring migration, family and cross-cultural interactions.
