THOUGHT PIECE: Annabel Boyer brings us a personal reflection on the struggle to belong in the place where you were born.
Category: Thoughts + Stories
be:longing – a look back on our first year
YEAR IN REVIEW: Editors-in-Chief of be:longing, Dunja and Jasmine, reflect on the publication’s first year.
Belonging to Australia
REFLECTION: Ella Kurz explores the solace and inspiration found in connections to land, and searches for what it means to her to be Australian.
The apple tree blossoms
REFLECTION: Abbas Khodamoradi Dashtaki shares with us a quiet moment of reverie beneath the memory-laden blossoms of an apple tree.
In step with my own drum beats
MEMOIR: Courtney Neville reflects on her experiences living between two places –
two cultures – and uncovers the impossibility of choosing between the two.
Brows, more brows and the joys of the Turkish drama
THOUGHT PIECE: Abeir Soukieh tells of eyebrows scorned and meddled with, and of the solace found in Turkish drama.
The magic of mystery: Belgrade unravelled
MEMOIR: Dunja Cvjetićanin brings us a memoir from her 2011 sojourn in Serbia, where she reflects on things found – and lost – during her time there.
The samosas are cooked in ghee…
REFLECTION: Asha Lambert-Patel recounts an interaction that toes the fine line between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation.
Passing through
MEMOIR: Ken Wallace reflects on the time he spent teaching English in Japan after university, including when his mum came to visit him some six months in.
Green banana
REFLECTION: Vesna Cvjetićanin shares with us a happy interaction experienced during her lunchtime quest for a green banana.
