Living in Cairo during her year abroad, Staff Writer Daisy Wright has seen first-hand how the Egyptian state is attempting to reclaim the desert through the construction of dystopian satellite cities. In this column she explores what that means for the future of Egyptian society.

With the open eyes of someone living in a majority Muslim country for the first time in her life, Daisy Wright reflects on the way the holy month of Ramadan changes the city which she lives in.

In the second instalment of her column, written on her Year Abroad, Daisy Wright gives her take on the debate about environmentalism in the Egyptian context.

In her sixth instalment for the CLC, Eve Mayes tells us about the contemporary artist Alpysbai Kazgulov, who blends together past and present forms of Kazakh life in enthralling compositions. And, he let her interview him for her YAP!

Year Abroad student Daisy Wright explores the intricacies of getting to know a new home in the first instalment of her column.

In her fourth instalment, Eve Mayes muses on British communicative customs, and how they have become unfamiliar to her as a result of living abroad.

In her third and final instalment of the term, columnist Eve Mayes takes us with her on her travels beyond Astana.

In their third instalment, Alex Jarvis takes us along the notorious Dumskaya street and to a delirium-inducing bubble-tea-stroke-rainbow-bagel counter.

In their second instalment, Alex Jarvis takes us to two more cafes in St Petersburg, the oddly named ‘Cucumbers’, and the ominous ‘Bunker’.

With her new perspectives on Kazakhstan, Eve Mayes takes us on a hurtling tour of Almaty as she finds her feet in her home.

In this article, Alexandra writes a enchanting article that focuses on the cafe, Leon, as a site through which she remembers her Year Abroad experience in St. Petersburg.

In the next instalment of her column, Emily Moss is grateful for the changing nature of friendships on her year abroad, both old and new.

In the second instalment of her column, Paris newly-local Emily Moss gives tips on how to stay financially afloat living abroad.

In the first instalment of her column The French Dispatch, Emily Moss discusses the loneliness of first moving abroad, and how to overcome it.