I can finally report that I’ve begun the task that brought me here to Egypt. Two and a half weeks ago, I started teaching a five-week course in documentary filmmaking as part of the professional development program at the Adham Center for Electronic Journalism here at the American University. My students have a wide range …
The American University here organizes excursions for newer faculty, so they can get out a bit and see the city and country. Over Thanksgiving weekend, instead of a turkey dinner — which I had on Wednesday with some other new faculty friends — they put together a trip to the town of Rosetta (Rashid in …
Here are some photos from my recent trip to the Sinai peninsula. They feature images of the Ras Mohamed National Marine Park; the seaside sidewalk of Dahab and the aptly named Colored Canyon.
Sometimes I talk too fast. And just as often I use idioms or phrases that are lost on a non-native speaker. Add to that my bad habit of going for the worst of puns, and you can see how I’ve baffled more than a few people in my world-traveling life. It’s something I have to …
Here are some photos from a tour of Cairo’s oldest Coptic churches and the art (and beautiful ceiling woodwork and stained glass) from the Coptic Museum.
Maybe it was because I grew up with a playground of 20 odd acres of woods behind my house, that I feel most at home in nature. Having lived in big cities, and now in choking, chaotic Cairo, I know more than ever that nature, to me, is a necessity, if only for a day …
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt. With the Eid el-Fitr holiday this week, the university is closed and many who can afford to, leave Cairo for their holiday homes. So I got outta town and came to the Sinai peninsula, where today I took my first dive in the Red Sea. Two amazing dives, with great visibility, along …
Here are a few photos from my trip to the White Desert and the Baharia Oasis. Stories to come.
I’m going on a trip to the Baharia oasis and the white desert. I hear it’s an amazing place. I’m taking the frisbee. And the camera. Will show you pics and tell you stories when I get back.
If I were Oprah Winfrey, I’d recommend to this book to millions of people: But I’m not Oprah, so instead I’ll suggest that the dozens of you who read this blog go out and buy my pal Katherine Lanpher‘s book of funny and poignant essays about her life and her move to New York City …