an ode to the days of the 160 plan

I was thinking about dinner and looking up savory crepes on a hot tip from a friend, and one of the first links to pop up on google is an order form for Pasta Pisa (in Medford). (!)
If only I had enough Points for international delivery!

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raining, groping, and not getting deported!

It rained in Cairo yesterday! This is very rare. My class got out early and my professor had these words to say, “Rainy days in Egypt are kind of like snow days everywhere else. Get out of here.”
The best part of this elemental oddity was the way it cleared the pollution out of the sky. [...]

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ronald: lover of falafel or obama advocate?

It’s Tuesday, the best day of the week! I’m sitting in a McDonalds in Maadi, using the free wireless and preparing for the English class I’m about to teach. There are about twenty-five kids behind me celebrating a birthday and popping balloons surreptitiously when their moms aren’t looking. Is it hard for me not to [...]

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CRL: one plus twenty

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAITLIN!!

caitlin reilly lacey

Me and Caitlin have been pals for a long time now. Thus..
an ode to CRL!

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لو سماهت؟ ايزة مزة واحد بس

Our bus slips to a stop and I jerk awake. My bangs are plastered to my forehead, and my friend Ben is sleeping next to me with his head back and his jaw hanging wide. I watch a fly ponderously consider entering his mouth for a few moments before I register that we really have [...]

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fasting and feasting and feats and feets (and photos!)

I’m really glad to see the end of Ramadan. It’s not that I didn’t appreciate the rowdy Iftars and private strolls along the Nile at dusk, but Cairo seems a little more put-together. Everybody is a little more cheerful now that their bellies are full. Also, every Muslim who has been fasting morning til night [...]

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