Middle East a little hot
So this will be my fourth trip heading to the Middle East. I’m getting the last details tied down and thinking about what’s ahead. There’ve been well wishes and I will need them. You kinda have to be a tough cookie as an American girl. There are guys who like to grab in Egypt. And, … Continue reading
Cairo PIV: Reconciliation
(Part of the Middle Eastern Cities series.) Fast forward 8 years later. Having left Cairo with no intension of speaking Arabic or being involved with the Middle East again I was a little shocked to be asked one day to teach Arabic. I told Maggie Nassif, a very classy woman, of the National Middle East … Continue reading
Part III: Cairo as an Arabic Student: Mosques and Trains”
This was the trip to Cairo that led me to say I wouldn’t tell people I studied Arabic. It would be about 8 years before someone discovered my Arabic past which would consequently lead me back into the Arab world. But that is a story for a different post. What did I love about Cairo the … Continue reading
Cairo Part II “Cairo for the First Time with an Argentine Flair”
Cairo is depth and breadth. Giza, now almost a suburb of Cairo, is home to the great pyramids adding a sense of timelessness to the city. The pyramid building era ended in about 2150 BC which means that you are looking at structures that Abraham (approx. 1813-1638 BC) and Moses would have seen passing through … Continue reading
Cairo Part I “Pre-Cairo: My Aunty”
This post is part of my Middle Eastern Cities series. See previous posts in the series: Damascus, Poll The second place finisher in the Middle Eastern cities poll after Damascus was Cairo. I decided to divide the posts for Cairo up into 4 parts since I’ve been there a couple times and have more stories. … Continue reading
Middle Eastern Cities Poll
Out of curiousity, which Middle Eastern city are you most likely to want to learn more about? If there are more than one, please feel free to vote more than once.
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Stories in Cairo
Posted by bookncurls on August 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Naguib Mahfouz wrote stories about Cairo which won him in 1988 the Nobel Prize in Literature. I was in a bus driving through the streets of Cairo late the other night thinking about him. What makes the chaos and the dirt beautiful or nostalgic? It makes me want to investigate the not so obvious reasons people love the … Continue reading →
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