January 27, 2006I’ve been watching the democratic elections in Palestine (or, among Palestinians, for those who can’t accept that Palestine is a place), not sure what to say. Now the elections are over and Hamas has won. One of the risks of… Continue Reading
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Know More: About ExPatFacts, Author My name is Matt Ellsworth. I’m an American. And I have been an expat (short for expatriate from the Latin ex patria, meaning “out of the fatherland”) for more than 8 years. [Sounds like a confession in a 12-step program, no?] I first left the U.S. in 1975, spending two…
Matt Ellsworth December 1, 2005 While at an international conference in Muscat in about 1999, the head of our delegation suffered a mild heart attack. As the only Arabic speaker in the group, it fell to me to accompany him to the hospital, get him admitted, and keep the rest of the delegation apprised of…
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While shopping in a flea market in Chile years ago I was surprised to find an 1832 U.S. half dollar. Then I remembered that all Atlantic-to-Pacific sea traffic had to circumnavigate South America until the Panama Canal was opened in 1914. Remnants of far-off societies can still be found all along the coasts. This episode…
An article by Ilana Ozernoy in a recent (December 26, 2005) U.S. News & World Report offers an outsiders view of American evangelical efforts in Eastern Russian. Among other things, it states, “The ex-pat evangelical community itself is largely fractured. Missionaries seldom mix with other Americans for fear of becoming more visible or being lumped…