Greetings, Skirts!  Photos from my November excursions (so far) here in Cairo are now posted.  They include pictures of the Mugamma, me in my dust mask to try and reduce the lung-destroying particles in a taxi ride, the desert road out to t...

My fieldwork has taken a backseat the past couple of days.  I’ve been very busy – going to the mall, going to the movies, going to see a comedy show, going on a guided tour of various historical sites of Egypt. Let’s start with the mall...

­­A few days ago in the wee hours of the morning I found myself sitting on the couch scribbling furiously in my journal.  I’d just got back from a night out with two friends in a bar known to one of them. We wound up sitting with two di...