About · Nadia

A slower life, and the island that gave it to me

I was born in London, to an Algerian father and a British mother, and lived the way London tells you to: always moving, never quite arriving. At eighteen I went to Algeria. At twenty-one, Jordan. At thirty-two I finally stopped, in Sicily, and found the thing I'd been chasing without a name. Then the island surprised me: Arabic words hiding in the dialect, markets that felt like Amman, flavours I already knew. The more I looked, the more I found. This blog is what I found.