The beginning was spiteful. A 60 LE bag Angela had purchased that morning ripped in a fit of nerves and the taxi bit Helene’s pocket and didn’t let go until she had a large tear in the fabric.
Regardless, we were not to be deterred, and trooped off to the bus station, each armed with a [...]
Living in the Middle East has offered me many fresh perspectives on my position and what I want from life. One of them is taking care not to over estimate the power of the little blue book I carry around. But at the same time, as a member of a respected and active intellectual community [...]
I never even think about this. Apparently it’s because I can’t hear myself think.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/world/middleeast/14cairo.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Enjoy!
So I climbed Mt. Sinai. Nothing compared to other peaks, I suppose, but after having walked uphill for 4 hours straight in the dead of night, I was happy to be done with it. I was looking for some sort of religious experience, which I found inklings of between the camels (I think this is [...]
It’s no small coincidence that most monumental feuds and turning points in Western religious tradition take place between brothers. What if Cain and Abel just buried the hatchet (so to speak) instead of nursing a Isaac/Ishmael-like resentment. Lot might have been a bit happier had he been on better terms with Abraham (at least his [...]
Salutations, all!
Here are the links to my photo albums from my railway romp to Luxor and Aswan. This weekend is the beach and another wedding, so hopefully there’ll be lots of photographic evidence of my well-being to enjoy!
Railway Romp Part 1
Railway Romp Part 2
To those of you who are news-aholics like myself, you might have read that within the last month, Egypt’s been having economic problems. This is nothing too surprising in a country that sets aside money to finance their international debts as the primary order of business when determining the annual budget. At least she’s no [...]
Egypt has this cute habit of reminding you that you’ll never figure her out.
Like yesterday. I stayed up later than usual that evening, and on a whim decided to check my email. Waiting in my inbox was something I’d pushed out of my mind, not wanting to waste time in anticipation. You’re reading the blog [...]
You might not know it, but Egypt was a paragon of technical progress in the nineteenth century. They were the second country in the world to maintain an extensive railway network. Before France, the United States, and only briefly after Britain, freight raced through the sloping Sahara and through oases on slugging metal monsters that [...]
There’s an often told story of my childhood, when during one of my stays in Atlanta with my paternal grandparents, I was treated to several meals at the Country Club of the South.
This is establishment is renowned for its famous guests and residents, like some of the Rolling Stones and Atlanta Braves baseball team, as [...]
