Photo Credit: Masala.com In Let her fly, Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala Yousafzai, the prominent Pakistani activist, takes us behind the curtain of her rise to fame, back to a time before UN recognition and Nobel Prizes. The story, narrated by Ziauddin, takes us through his journey from growing up in a very conservative […]
As a child, I was very interested in Greek mythology. I have always loved the Iliad and The Odyssey and thoroughly enjoyed the Percy Jackson books when I discovered them as a teenager. More recently, I appreciated the Netflix series ‘Troy: Fall of a City’. Thus, when I saw that Stephen Fry had written a […]
Caption: Snowy owl flying over snow field, Canada COPYRIGHT:©Theo Allofs Last summer, I went to visit friends in Baku, Azerbaijan. As part of the visit, my friend, Faik, took me to the Heydar Aliyev Centre, famous for its unusual architecture. In case you do not know, Heydar Aliyev was Azerbaijan’s President from 1993 to 2003; […]
We met on a Saturday morning at Le Pain Quotidien for the second edition of Freely’s International Book Club. In our first edition we discussed Americanah – check it out here. The book we read was written by Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru and his Years of Pilgrimage. It tells the story of Tsukuru, a Japanese working […]
“Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow.” Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.” Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani teenage girl, publicly spoke up in favor of female education and was shot in the head by the Taliban, in an apparent attempt to silence her. She survived. […]
Joining a book club is something I have always wanted to do but until today I never got the opportunity. At the first Freely Mag meeting of the semester, our Lead Editor Alex mentioned that he was planning on creating an international club. I signed up immediately. Reading tends to be a very personal experience, […]
“The more that you read, the more things you’ll know. The more things you know, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss. The editors at Freely Magazine have compiled a list of books written by a diverse mix of international authors that we wish to share with you. Each of these books have changed the […]
Introduction We would like to wish all of our readers a happy holiday season and offer up some of our favorite dishes for your table! Enjoy! Cacio e Pepe I’m a terrible cook. Thank goodness little is expected from me by my family during the holidays. We don’t have much family in the US, and […]
Glad to see you’re reading this! We (Joanna and J.D.) have decided to take on the food trucks on campus and attempt to review them all. We plan on trying one new food truck each week and reviewing it to share our progress with you guys. For our first adventure, we bought food from Jamaican […]
