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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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View fullsize The grave marker of Adele Brise in Champion near Door County.. composed in Walloon, related to French and still spoken in southern Belgium

What I’m reading,
Winter 2026:

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Building and Rebuilding

September 15, 2022
Tags: Egypt, architecture, mosque, saint, construction

Popular Camera Angles

September 13, 2022
Tags: Egypt, instagram, mosque, people, pilgrimage

Site Hallmarks

September 13, 2022
Tags: Egypt, mosque, nation, architecture

The Realm of Popular Islam

September 13, 2022
Tags: Egypt, islam, pilgrimage, amulets

Pedestrian Pilgrims

September 13, 2022
Tags: Egypt, mosque, pilgrimage, instagram

Getting to the Center

September 12, 2022
Tags: Egypt, street scene, pilgrimage, mosque, city

Readable Above

September 12, 2022
Tags: Egypt, pilgrimage, mosque, city, transportation, railway, google earth

A Delta Pilgrimage

September 12, 2022
Tags: Egypt, pilgrimage, islam, nation, tourism

Where Your Treasure Is

September 10, 2022

Language of a State

September 10, 2022
Tags: cairo, nation, symbols, power, birds, tourism, architecture

Crowded Cairo

August 22, 2022
Tags: cairo, view, city, road, traffic

Where Is Modern Hope

August 21, 2022
Tags: Egypt, modernity, monastery, development, public transportation, construction

The Mirage in the Desert

August 21, 2022
Tags: Egypt, desert, monastery, garden, modernity, development, sign, residences

The Desert Becomes a City

August 21, 2022
Tags: Egypt, desert, residences, environmentalism, city, monastery, modernity

Communal Eating

August 20, 2022
Tags: Egypt, museum, virtual reality, Internet, food, community, monastery
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