A souq, or outdoor Middle East marketplace, is frequently a labyrinth of crowded, busy and loud streets with masses of aggressive shopkeepers calling out at you to buy their goods. Other times, such as in the Gulf countries, souqs are…
Israel is one of the most unique and complex countries on earth, with its wealth of religious and historical sites, visible evidence of past wars and status as the world’s only Jewish nation, coexisting very carefully with its Arab population.…
Ayelet Weisz is a 33-year-old freelance writer in Haifa, Israel whom I became friends with when I was also living in Israel and we were both travel blogging. (Her name is pronounced Ah-YE-let Va-is.) She graduated from Tel Aviv University…