Category Archives: An Observation

I was sitting here researching a character for my new book. Specifically, the character is Turkish so I wanted to have an authentic Turkish name. That’s when I came across this: BURAK m Turkish From Arabic براق (Buraq), the name of the legendary creature that, according to Islamic tradition, transported the Prophet Muhammad. Its name […]

As the distractive global spectacle of the 22nd Olympic Games plays out on the world’s stage, real news is shoved to the background. Indeed, at no time in modern history has the world teetered on such a precarious abyss as the one that we find ourselves on now. The U.S. is challenged on every front; […]