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The beauty and entitlement of traveling as a tourist

Author Shahnaz Habib next to the cover of her new book, Airplane Mode.
Author photo by Eva Garmendia
Author Shahnaz Habib next to the cover of her new book, Airplane Mode.

Summer is a time when many Americans are taking off from work and setting their sights on far-off vacation destinations: tropical beaches, fairy-tale cities, sun-drenched countrysides. But in her book Airplane Mode, the reluctant travel writer Shahnaz Habib warns of recklessly embracing what she calls "passport privilege," — and how that can skew peoples' images of what the world is and who it belongs to.