A Palestinian-American writer, slowly making a life in France.

I'm Noelle — a writer, teacher, traveler, and quiet observer of life in France. My father is from Palestine, grew up in Saudi Arabia, and immigrated to the United States for his studies when he was about eighteen or twenty years old. I grew up between languages and longings, and a few years ago I landed in Nantes.

This site is where I keep notes. About the small bureaucracies of becoming foreign, about olive trees and grandmothers, about Saturday markets and what it means to write about beauty in a violent world. About skincare, sometimes, because the body is also a country.

I write essays, a chapter-by-chapter memoir, and the occasional journalistic piece — on culture, migration, Palestine, and the human-interest stories that move me. I write slowly. I hope you'll read slowly too.

For my teaching, translating, and consulting work, visit franglish.org. I also run an edtech startup at teachlink.fr.