"Iran wasn’t top of my destinations until recently, and now I realize it was because I didn’t know anything about it. As most people, I had this vague image of a middle eastern country apparently dangerous and somehow not interesting. The more I read about it, the more I found out how much I ignored."

Read about travel blogger Fabrizia Endrizzi's experience traveling through Iran on jahamedia.org

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A young Palestinian-Jordanian mother from Jordan talks about the challenge, blessing and drastic change of lifestyle brought on by motherhood.

A Benghazi doctor writes on her experience practicing medicine in a country with no hospital funding and no functional government. Can the deep passion for her profession survive? Given current constraints can the sick, wounded, and downtrodden continue to receive the care they need?