I’m still hunting for an apartment here in Cairo, and tonight one estate agent agreed to meet me at 9 PM.  The time came and went and half an hour later I called to ask what was going on.  “Because of Ramadan all the people are praying ...

­­ At the end of yesterday evening, a family friend told me she’d sent an e-mail to the Registrar’s office at AUC on my behalf.  She’d shown them my blog entry Research Fellowship: A Comedy in Three Acts, in which I describe my fir...

Yesterday a friend of a friend of my parents, Flora, offered to take me to Khan el Khalili and then to see some dervish dancing in the cultural center across the road.  The idea of going out and having fun really excited me because I’ve barely...