I remember my auntie Kate. She was just a child when the Canadian authorities took her away to residential school. My father and the older uncles, though, had a different fate—they were given a 'choice.' They told them: 'Go to residential school or join the army and fight in World War II.'

The difference between craftmanship today and back in the day is the absence of true skill. Craftsmen today are overly reliant on machines, which is not how I started. The first step before doing any work was always to sharpen the knifes with granite stones by hand […]

"Don’t you find it embarrassing that an Albanian girl is better than you?" the teacher told the other students after I had gotten once again the best grade in class. I stood there in the room, listening to every word. I didn't know what to do or say […]

“I have been living here since my childhood. I'm a man who never went to any school. Instead I spent my childhood working with archaeological missions […] I was following the footsteps of my father and grandfather.”

Exploring the thousand year old city of Cairo has it’s unique thrill. You imagining the stories, laughter and cries the stone walls around you witnessed. The moment you leaving the main roads and get lost in the maze of back alleys, you would think that time has stood still if a phone wouldn’t ring every now and then.