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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,
Winter 2026:

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The Scene Two Years Earlier

August 30, 2024
Tags: cairo, construction, skyscraper, desert, travel

Modernity as Ghost Town

August 30, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, modernity, skyscraper, construction

Heading to the Icon

August 29, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, nation, skyscraper, city

Pre-Dreaming the Water

August 29, 2024
Tags: cairo, sign, technology, dream, desert, development

Cairo Flight

August 29, 2024
Tags: cairo, advertisement, water, residences, city

Water Profligacy

August 27, 2024
Tags: Egypt, water, development, park, tree

Snake in the Sand

August 06, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, development, google earth, river, park, mosque, city

Come on Home to Green River

August 06, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, river, water, development, park, mosque

Greening the Desert

August 06, 2024
Tags: Egypt, nation, ecology, plants, Israel, cairo, water

Mosques and People Moving

August 06, 2024
Tags: cairo, mosque, islam, worship, parking lot

Assessing a Mosque

August 05, 2024
Tags: Egypt, mosque, design, quran, beauty, nation

Watch the Throne

August 05, 2024
Tags: Egypt, power, cairo, mosque, design, quran, arabic, worship

Just One Mega Mosque

August 05, 2024
Tags: Egypt, cairo, mosque, development, city

Worship in Heliopolis

August 04, 2024
Tags: cairo, development, mosque, postcards, city, design

A Visual Program of Mosques

August 04, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, mosque, desert, city, leadership, design, development
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