About

Siem Reap to Suli is a temporary blog and running conversation between two old friends from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada who have found themselves, for different reasons, out and abroad during tail end of 2014.

One is in Cambodia, the other in Iraqi Kurdistan.

These are their questions and answers and thoughts about home and away.

CAMBODIA

James Janzen is a graduate of the Conflict Resolution Studies/International Development Studies programs at the University of Winnipeg and is completing a Master of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Waterloo.

While completing his academic requirements he has also been a marathon runner, dinosaur-enthusiast, video store clerk, hole digger, concrete layer, fishing lodge manager and construction site everything-person. Certain life urgings/circumstances have brought James to the Canadian North, much of Europe, East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. His interests include the relationship between conflict, culture, identity and space/place. The divide between Settler and Indigenous people in Canada is of significant importance to him.

Currently he has an internship with a peacebuilding NGO based in Siem Reap.


KURDISTAN

Devin Morrow is a freelance writer, photographer, instagrammer, runner, thinker, wonderer, wanderer, dreamer and thunderstorm chaser. She has a Master’s in Political Theory from York University and a Bachelor of Arts in the same from the University of Winnipeg, though she wonders whether one can do much of substance with either.

She is guided by her curiosity, which has taken her from Winnipeg, Canada through the Middle East and eastern Europe, south and southeast Asia, the Pacific, and central America and the Caribbean.

Currently a journalist based in Iraqi Kurdistan, she focuses on disarmament and displacement, and hopes to learn and better understand what motivates people and their identity construction in times of war and peace through storytelling.