In Cairo

Finals are, in the Egyptian lexicon, khalas . My seventeen page paper on the Iraqi insurgency has been submitted. I pulled an almost-all-ni...

CAUTION: political commentary ahead. ----- The morning after our adventure in Ramallah found us happily eating yet another fantastic breakfa...

food poisoning and finals. i'll finish my saga soon. sorry.

Brief break from Holy Land posts to bring you this gem from the National Democratic Party of Egypt: Egypt to celebrate Mubarak's birthda...

"Is that gunfire?" Across our empty ice cream bowls we looked at each other. A faint popping noise could be heard in the streets. ...

Thursday morning broke, clear and warm. Excited, anxious, hungry, tired, nervous: we were going to the West Bank. We packed up our gear and...

Okay. So now that my Arabic vocab test--which I very well couldn't study for in Israel--is over, I can get down to writing about my mos...