3 RECS ON TRAVEL, CULTURE & LIVING BEYOND BORDERS

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SAHĀ QUEST is a vetted global friendship club for digital nomads, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers who want deeper relationships, not random meetups. Spend extended time together on international small-group trips and then keep having global dinners and build a community you genuinely want to spend time with—that travels with you. Learn More.

SAINt JHN is a genre-bending Guyanese artist who fuses hip-hop, R&B, and atmospheric pop into music that feels both gritty and cinematic, pairing raw emotional honesty with luxury-tinged swagger. Raised between Brooklyn and Guyana, his global background seeps into songs that explore ambition, vulnerability, heartbreak, and survival with uncommon nuance. He’ll drop melancholy melodies wrapped in hard-edged beats and his albums often feel cohesive, moody, and intensely personal while telling important diaspora stories. Listen on Spotify.  

ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU is an award-winning Palestinian film that traces a single family’s story from the 1948 Nakba — when Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes — through decades of displacement, occupation, and trauma up to the near present day, all seen through the lens of a mother recounting how her son came to be wounded in a West Bank protest. The film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and was shortlisted for the 98th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film. It reminds audiences that beneath decades of conflict are real lives bound by love, loss, and an unbroken will to endure — making it both a vital historical reckoning and an urgent call to empathy. Watch the trailer.

Children of the Jacaranda Tree is a novel that traces the long shadow of political repression in post-revolutionary Iran through the lives of children born to imprisoned dissidents and the families shaped by loss, exile, and resilience. Drawing from her own experience as the daughter of former political prisoners, author Sahar Delijani weaves together interconnected stories that span decades and continents, exploring how trauma is inherited, remembered, and sometimes transformed into quiet acts of resistance and hope.  Published in 75 countries and translated into 30 languages, you can buy the book or listen here with trial of Audible.

Learn the meaning of Carnival traditions like jab jab & stilt walking, get recs for visiting Melissa Noel’s home country of Guyana, and explore how diaspora stories are told—and why depth, context, and care matter. Learn about Jamaica’s barrel children, the long-term impact of migration on families, the ethical considerations when interviewing vulnerable groups, the extractive dynamics of Caribbean tourism, the responsibility of storytellers, the ways culture, migration, and power intersect—and how travel and journalism can be practiced with intention, accountability, and respect. Listen on your favorite platform.

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