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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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Fragment of a Parking Lot

December 07, 2024
Tags: cairo, parking lot, modernity, water, surveillance

Universal Arches and Pandas

December 07, 2024
Tags: cairo, city, mall, fast-food, modernity

More Mahfouz

December 07, 2024
Tags: cairo, novel, bookstore, books, mall, modernity

Modern Edge

December 06, 2024
Tags: cairo, mall, globalization, business, individualism

No Mall Photos

December 06, 2024
Tags: cairo, mall, success, people, photography

Mall of Egypt

December 06, 2024
Tags: cairo, mall, development, dubai

West Same as the East

December 04, 2024
Tags: cairo, development, residences, sign, Egypt

Mixed Experience

December 04, 2024
Tags: Egypt, travel, pyramid, modernity

The Aimlessness of Egypt

December 03, 2024
Tags: cairo, desert, development, motorcycle, Egypt

Tech Elsewhere

December 02, 2024
Tags: seattle, Egypt, technology, city

The Smart Village

December 02, 2024
Tags: cairo, technology, corporations, development

Why One Museum?

December 02, 2024
Tags: cairo, museum, size, sign, Wonder of the World

Seeing the Workers

December 01, 2024
Tags: cairo, development, laborers, dubai

Abandoning the Nile

December 01, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, river, development, city

Glass Mastabas

December 01, 2024
Tags: cairo, ancient Egypt, tourism, hotel, development
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