2017 has been a year of change and transformation for me. In June I traveled to Bosnia as part of a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Program to learn about European Muslim Culture and Art with a group of 15 educators from Arizona. In that month long excursion I learned a lot about the history of the country and region known as the Balkans and also as former Yugoslavia. The opportunity to be part of this trip came up in the fall of 2016 for Maricopa Community College faculty and Arizona