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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,
Nov & Dec 2024:

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Ditching Complexity

November 25, 2024
Tags: cairo, ancient Egypt, military, public art, power

A Touch of Gentleness

November 24, 2024
Tags: cairo, museum, ancient Egypt, theology, chairs, gold

A King to Remember

November 24, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, statue, museum, people

The Central Court

November 24, 2024
Tags: museum, cairo, statue, design

The Egyptian Museum

November 20, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, ancient Egypt, museum, art, colonialism

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 Political Code

November 16, 2024
Tags: cairo, politics, symbols, sign, markets, Egypt

The Traffic Argument

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

No One Here Gets Ahead

November 15, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, money, economy

No Staging Ground

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

Further into Cairo

November 15, 2024
Tags: cairo, street scene, people, city, markets

Living on Memory

November 15, 2024
Tags: cairo, books, memory, photography

Cairo Inside Out

November 13, 2024
Tags: cairo, books, photography, place, city
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