I woke up late today.  I could feel my heart fluttering like an anxious bird and I decided it was because my body wasn’t getting enough oxygen from my weak lungs so it was just pumping the blood around faster in a futile effort to make it up.&...

When the table crashed over spilling beer and broken glass everywhere for the second time, I decided to go home. Before I even say anything about this whole event I have to confess that I know who reads this blog and I’m afraid that in writing a...

In the middle of downtown Cairo is a huge and imposing gray building known as the Mugamma.­  If you search for it on Google most of the sites that pop up are other people’s blog entries about trying to get visas renewed or do any other bureau...