Never have I had so many veritable travel possibilities within my reach. My roommate and her friends are going to Morocco for spring break with discounted tickets they found on a travel site. Other friends are going to Jordan/Syria/Israel, places that would make me feel like I really maximized my Egyptian location if I made [...]
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February 19, 2008
The Writing on the Wall
The truth will out. One way or another. This time it outed itself in the form of a desperate note on a bathroom-stall door. Black-ink panic against a backdrop of beige-paint normalcy. “Do you guys make out with your boyfriends? What should I do?” read one, next to, “My boyfriend and I had sex, but thank God [...]
February 18, 2008
A picture is worth how many words?
These links should work. Enjoy!
Giza Pyramids, Sphinx, Saqqara:
http://bu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2236579&l=cacc7&id=919642
Alexandria:
http://bu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2234442&l=0016b&id=919642
Around Cairo:
http://bu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2232318&l=f5d3c&id=919642
http://bu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2230261&l=3c52a&id=919642
Leave a comment if there are any issues with the links.
February 18, 2008
Weekend Update
This weekend, I’m going scuba diving. Scuba diving! Me!
This is not something I ever envisioned myself doing. After 6 hours of classroom instruction (completed today), and confined water dives tomorrow, I’ll be going off to one of the most renowned dive locations in the world, the Red Sea.
Truth be told, I’m slightly nervous. I have [...]
February 18, 2008
Old Time Religion
The New York Times featured an article yesterday on the frustrated youth in Egypt. Well written and insightful as it was, I feel that it neglects important historical precedents that are crucial to understanding Egypt’s situation.
The Arab Middle East cycles through ideology like tissue paper. When you’ve used one up, it’s time to pull a [...]
February 17, 2008
The Pyramid Inch
Isaac Newton had a secret. When he wasn’t inventing calculus or speculating about the way the world worked, he turned his mathematical genius to Biblical issues. He tried to calculate the ’sacred cubit’, the measurement used in the Old Testament. Standing on the shoulders of giants, scientists through to the present day will postulate that [...]
February 13, 2008
Pride Goeth Before the Fall
Forgive me a small showing of pride, but I’ve been quoted! http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/02/13/egypt-on-winning-the-african-cup-of-nation-ghana-2008/
This blog-compilation site quoted my reactions to Egypt’s victory in the same breath as the BBC. Nifty, if I do say so myself.
In other news, my mother sent me an email the other day cautioning me to “respect the people of my adopted country.” [...]
February 11, 2008
Masr! Masr! Masr!
Grey colors my world. Inhaling it, my blood thickens and heavy hangs my heart, so heavy that I sink to the ground and pray to the east that I can still love my Egypt although she does not love me.
I smile. I would cry but I don’t know how. The all the water in [...]
February 10, 2008
We get by with a little help from our friends
Hi everyone,
A break from our usually scheduled program to let you know about a personal struggle. Chances are you know someone whose life has been altered by a struggle with cancer. As I write this, my nineteen-year-old friend Robbie Greenberger is beginning his six-month stay at Yale-New Haven Hospital and undergoing his first round of [...]
February 10, 2008
Alexandria
By rights I should like Alexandria more than Cairo. If Alexandria were a marriage prospect, Yenta would come hobbling up to my door crowing “Girly, have I got a match for you!” But it’s not the case.
Don’t get me wrong. As soon as I the bus left Cairo proper, I turned around to get a [...]
