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Masr is the place to be: October 2008
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Masr is the place to be. Friday, October 24, 2008. Adventure.I could not explain to my students what this word means, but I know that I love it. I try to keep in mind that I don't love the kind of adventure where you're impersonally and by yourself doing strange things just for some sort of story to tell later. One of my favorite verses of the Bible that I constantly tell myself: "if I fight wild bulls in Ephesus for merely human reasons, what have I gained? 1: The closest I will get to being James Bond.
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Masr is the place to be: Stuff White People Like
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Masr is the place to be. Saturday, April 11, 2009. Stuff White People Like. So in case you haven't seen this website, take a look. I am devoting this post to stuff white people like. White people like being surrounded by non-white people. For example, when white people gather at a dinner party in Egypt, the white community evaluates each white person present on a point system of being surrounded by non-white people. Being in another country at the moment 1 point. Language study 10 points. Living with non...
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Masr is the place to be: New Life
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Masr is the place to be. Sunday, April 5, 2009. The weather has unexpectedly taken a leap into the 90s (farenheit) and it leaves me remembering summer, when I first got here, thinking of the "circle of life" as my roommate put it, things coming back to the beginning, working in cycles. I have never seen anything like Coptic baptism. Last night the women of the family planned their outfits, hair, and make-up. This morning they woke up early and in a flurry of color and hair curlers, they prepared ...I sho...
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Masr is the place to be: Colonialism
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Masr is the place to be. Wednesday, March 18, 2009. I think I have finally found a word for a collection of uglinesses I find around me. Supposedly the UK declared Egypt’s independence in 1922. Egypt didn’t even get to declare it itself. And Wikipedia says, “British influence, however, continued to dominate Egypt's political life and fostered fiscal, administrative, and governmental reforms.”. But it still has a hold on the world, no matter which part of it I sit in. I have been more and more happy about...
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Masr is the place to be: Maasalaama Masr
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Masr is the place to be. Friday, May 1, 2009. I'm nearing the end of my painful week of goodbyes. My roommate commented that more always happens in the first and last week. This is true emotionally, mentally and literally. I am thinking and feeling and doing more in this last week than probably a normal month here. This is saying a lot. After eating pizza, and chocolate cake, and ice-cream, and her offering me money in case I needed it to travel, we said our goodbyes. Sucks. Saturday it was foreigner tim...
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Masr is the place to be: December 2008
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Masr is the place to be. Tuesday, December 23, 2008. I am poised here in the middle of my month long vacation. I have never had a vacation in Egypt before. Studying and working have been my life here, so breathing in the extremely polluted air of Cairo has never tasted so sweet as now, when I have no obligations but enjoying her and showing off her charms to people I love. I ride a train to Alexandria watching the sunset over the rich Nile fields, going to the Christmas concert of one of my former studen...
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Masr is the place to be: April 2009
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Masr is the place to be. Tuesday, April 21, 2009. So Jerusalem, we went. The things that this city has meant are innumerable and mind-boggling. I took a five day weekend and trekked across endless unpaved desert to reach this place for about two and a half days. We finally made it to the entrance where an Orthodox black-robed priest grabbed my arm, shoved me through a doorway, another priest shoved me to my knees shouting "kiss and go! How long can this last? What will be lost when it does crack? Althoug...
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Masr is the place to be: Jerusalem
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Masr is the place to be. Tuesday, April 21, 2009. So Jerusalem, we went. The things that this city has meant are innumerable and mind-boggling. I took a five day weekend and trekked across endless unpaved desert to reach this place for about two and a half days. We finally made it to the entrance where an Orthodox black-robed priest grabbed my arm, shoved me through a doorway, another priest shoved me to my knees shouting "kiss and go! How long can this last? What will be lost when it does crack?
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Masr is the place to be: May 2009
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Masr is the place to be. Friday, May 1, 2009. I'm nearing the end of my painful week of goodbyes. My roommate commented that more always happens in the first and last week. This is true emotionally, mentally and literally. I am thinking and feeling and doing more in this last week than probably a normal month here. This is saying a lot. After eating pizza, and chocolate cake, and ice-cream, and her offering me money in case I needed it to travel, we said our goodbyes. Sucks. Saturday it was foreigner tim...
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Masr is the place to be: January 2009
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Masr is the place to be. Friday, January 23, 2009. Getting gutsier or getting tired? Settling in or settling? I have a little over three months left here. I've been here about seven months. I've just been appointed Intern Coordinator at my NGO, which is probably the perfect job for me (in Cairo, hanging out with and mentoring college students, emailing people, working at an NGO dedicated to understanding between Arab and Western societies, in an office with great people, and getting paid for it! Me: "O y...