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Appleton close to the shortest day of the year..

What I’m reading,
Nov & Dec 2024:

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The Hollowed Center

December 17, 2024
Tags: cairo, view, city, Egypt

The Mosaic Program

December 16, 2024
Tags: cairo, city, public art, mosaic, middle east, pyramid, syria

That Cairo Tower

December 16, 2024
Tags: cairo, river, skyscraper, city, Cold War

Greetings from Cairo

December 16, 2024
Tags: cairo, city, postcards, design

Building the Empty Crescent

December 15, 2024
Tags: ancient Egypt, river, palace, city, archeology

City of the Sun

December 15, 2024
Tags: ancient Egypt, city, religion, archeology

The Blue Squiggly Nile

December 11, 2024
Tags: cairo, river, map, desert, city

Universal Arches and Pandas

December 07, 2024
Tags: cairo, city, mall, fast-food, modernity

Tech Elsewhere

December 02, 2024
Tags: seattle, Egypt, technology, city

Abandoning the Nile

December 01, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, river, development, city

Surveying Modern Cairo

November 20, 2024
Tags: cairo, map, city, museum, railway

Cairo and the Nile

November 19, 2024
Tags: cairo, river, city, colonialism

The Faulty Keys

November 18, 2024
Tags: cairo, books, globalization, city, Israel, gender

The Traffic Argument

November 16, 2024
Tags: cairo, traffic, infrastructure, cars, street scene, city

No Staging Ground

November 15, 2024
Tags: cairo, class, city, building, poverty
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