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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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Actual Tanta

September 19, 2022
Tags: Egypt, city, sacred space, view

Looking Another Direction

September 19, 2022
Tags: Egypt, house, painting, imagination

Onward to Mecca and Medina

September 18, 2022
Tags: Egypt, Mecca, pilgrimage, sign, city

Orthodoxy Reminders

September 18, 2022
Tags: Egypt, Mecca, prayer, islam, hotel

My Pilgrimage Hotel

September 17, 2022
Tags: Egypt, pilgrimage, hotel, street scene

Passions Like Mine

September 17, 2022
Tags: Egypt, people, class, travel, clothing, mosque, islam

New Capital Sacred

September 17, 2022
Tags: Egypt, mosque, construction, nation, transportation, city

Empty Mosques

September 17, 2022
Tags: Egypt, mosque, development, nation, sacred space

Head and Heart

September 17, 2022
Tags: Egypt, cairo, shrine, islam, prayer, people

The Shrine of Husayn

September 16, 2022
Tags: Egypt, cairo, shia, islam, history, shrine

Egypt's Shrines

September 15, 2022
Tags: Egypt, shrine, islam, nation

Shrine at the Center

September 15, 2022
Tags: Egypt, islam, shrine, saint, mosque

The Interior Court

September 15, 2022
Tags: Egypt, mosque, design, architecture

Prayer, Nap, Photo

September 15, 2022
Tags: Egypt, mosque, photography, interior scene, people, park, city

The Mosque in Time

September 15, 2022
Tags: Egypt, mosque, pilgrimage, Ottomans, architecture, postcards
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