by Odelia Putterman | 18 Jun 2018 | Asia, China, Personal Reflections, School Year Abroad, Student Posts, Youth Voices
I spent the past year in Beijing. The Chinese language has taught me that change is inevitable — and life will yield new loves for me. “The Orchard Pavilian Gathering” (Wikimedia Commons) This past year I lived in China as a 17-year-old American high...
by News Decoder | 21 Apr 2016 | Islam, Middle East
By Nelson Graves Beware misconceptions about Islam that can mar Western accounts of society and politics in Muslim-majority nations. That was the advice of Jonathan Lyons, an expert on the Islamic world, in a mini-course for students in News-Decoder’s pilot...