Egypt
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Wednesday, 15 Dec 2010 | Views [942]
The Egyptian Museum of Agriculture* - Mathaf al Za'ri al Masri – was built in 1934 and has ever descended thereafter into a twilight gloom of dust and neglect. These days it is a museum piece in itself. Display cases emptied by the slow actions of ... Read more >
Wednesday, 8 Dec 2010 | Views [744]
Although he does not live there M______ stays with his
friend A____ in Tibah, 15 km east of Luxor. A____ studies at the nearby Faculty
of Art. His paintings are easily the best thing in the college, though staff
and students alike disparage ... Read more >
Wednesday, 1 Dec 2010 | Views [768]
The tourist trade describes three paths through the commercial and social landscape of Luxor. The first, the ruins of the Middle Kingdom capital of Thebes, are what brought European travellers here in the 18th and 19th centuries, and made the fortunes ... Read more >
Wednesday, 24 Nov 2010 | Views [911] | Comments [1]
Cairo was closed last week for the Eid Holiday. Eid al-Adha, or as it is known in Pakistan, Bakra Eid. Bakra. The goat.
For the holiday celebrates the intended sacrifice, at God's behest, of Abraham's son Isaac. A sacrifice averted by the substitution, ... Read more >
Wednesday, 17 Nov 2010 | Views [654]
Although the United Arab Republic –
Nasser's vision of a pan Arab state - is long since dead, having only briefly
bound Egypt and Syria in uneasy union, an echo remains of that ill starred
dream. It is found, in all places, in an annex to the Cairo ... Read more >
Saturday, 21 Mar 2009 | Views [1121]
The Blue Mosque is named for the tiles, imported from
Istanbul during the days of Ottoman rule, that decorate its interior walls.
Every surface is covered with flowers and floral motifs and the simple but
elegant exterior contrasts markedly ... Read more >
Saturday, 14 Mar 2009 | Views [1048] | Comments [1]
At the south-eastern edge of the Giza plateau, not exactly
in the shadow of the pyramids but certainly close enough for the sky to be
dominated by their impossibly massive forms, are the remains of the city that
once housed the 60,000 odd workers ... Read more >
Saturday, 7 Mar 2009 | Views [1122] | Comments [1]
Old, or rather historic, or rather Fatimid, or rather
Islamic Cairo has changed its name almost as often as rulers have come and gone
over the centuries. The most recent of the names [old and historic] are
designed to reduce the emphasis on precisely ... Read more >
