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The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: 2020 in Review
Looking back on events in the world and in my life in 2020, and ahead to better things in 2021.
Announcing "The Algerian Dream": Signed Books Now Available for Pre-Order
My new book, "The Algerian Dream," is now available for pre-order. Details here!
Maghreb Photography Award Winners
See my three winning entries from Algeria in the 2020 Maghreb Photography Awards.
A Conversation on "Andi Hulm" and Youth Entrepreneurship in Algeria
A virtual discussion about "Andi Hulm" and economic opportunities for youth in Algeria.
A World of Statues (and Why You Should Help Tear Some Down)
Just as statues symbolize a society's values, toppled statues symbolize something, too: the intent to forge social change.
Plagued: Misreading Camus in the Age of Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter
A pandemic is the time to lift up and care for an underclass, not to erase it further. Yet Camus's famous novel does just that to native Algerians.
The Confusion Compounds the Contagion: 10 Lessons about our World from Covid-19
How could we know so little? Here's 10 things we *have* learned from the Covid-19 crisis—and about what's coming next.
Bourexit in the Time of Coronavirus
Seeking certainty, departing Algeria, and writing a book amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Tadrart: The Mystique of No Man's Land
Deep in the Algerian Sahara, vast expanses leave space to ponder life's great questions.
Andi Hulm - I Have A Dream
Watch me host Andi Hulm ("I Have A Dream"), Algeria's first entrepreneurship reality television show.
Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Roam
Encounters with the American West in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado
Much To Love in MTL
On the pleasures of exploring cities that lean into their diversity rather than running from it.