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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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What I’m reading,
May 2025:

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Museum Infrastructure

December 15, 2022
Tags: Egypt, fortress, nation, ships, infrastructure, Ottomans

Telling the Same Story

April 15, 2022
Tags: dubai, story, nation, history, fortress, desert, globalization

Classic Arab Life

April 14, 2022
Tags: dubai, ethnicity, museum, fortress, books, travel, leisure

Figure and Ground

April 14, 2022
Tags: dubai, photography, fortress, people, desert, travel

Historic Watchtower

April 13, 2022
Tags: dubai, history, preservation, fortress, money, symbols, nation

Fort and Skyscrapers

April 13, 2022
Tags: dubai, history, modernity, fortress, skyscraper, nation
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Where the Lighthouse Stood

June 13, 2020
Tags: ruins, Egypt, lighthouse, fortress, medieval, Wonder of the World, imagination
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All That Is Solid

January 26, 2018
Tags: syria, citadel, fortress, city, crusades, war

Spiritual Wealth in the Emptiness

December 10, 2017
Tags: desert, Egypt, christianity, monastery, Bedouin, garden, fortress
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Celebrating Inti Raymi

August 29, 2017 in Speaking Stones
Tags: festival, ritual, sacred space, inca, fortress
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Imagining the Past

August 29, 2017 in Speaking Stones
Tags: imagination, ruins, inca, fortress, battle
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Spanish Destruction

August 29, 2017 in Speaking Stones
Tags: inca, preservation, fortress, ruins
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Mega Shapes

August 28, 2017 in Speaking Stones
Tags: inca, stone, symbols, fortress
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Magic Megaliths

August 28, 2017 in Speaking Stones
Tags: stone, inca, fortress, architecture