The news from home being that my grandmother is not improving and may slip away from us shortly, I decided to cut my trip short by a few weeks and get myself back to the States.   I will be leaving Egypt this coming Monday.   I find...

For the past day or so the internet in our apartment hasn’t been working.  Predictably, as soon as there was urgent news from home it became difficult to make contact.   My grandmother fell a few days ago and hit her head.  I...

I went out yesterday to do a research interview and didn’t end up going home until the wee hours of the next morning.  My friend Lorna called just as I was leaving the interview and asked if I wanted to join her in Mohandiseen to get our nails...