A Mosque on Every Corner.
While Nigel and Johnny were in from Taiwan, Megan and I decided to take them Mosque-walking from the Sayyida Zeinab Mosque to very near the Citadel in Islamic Cairo. We swiftly coined the term “Mosqueing” to refer to this activity. Check Webster’s in a few years, it will be there. [...]

Liberation Theology for the 21st Century
I caught this article from the Christian Science monitor this morning on the trepidation of Arab states over reacting to the current situation in Iran. They cited the “voice of a disenfranchised [Iranian] people” as the mechanism for the current political and social unrest and that this is the biggest [...]

It still costs the same
I had the best haircut experience of my life today.
See, the air in Cairo is astoundingly dirty. I never feel clean: especially my face. It also doesn’t help that the water is so heavily chlorinated that it bleaches your skin (Eat that “Fair and Lovely“) by stripping off the top [...]

No short supply
This is a great idea.

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Is that “inshallah for real,” or “inshallah, it’s never going to happen?”

What will come over us next?

I caught this article this week on Reuters. Apparently, it has become a bit of a problem in Jerusalem that while people are there visiting holy sites and relics, something comes over them, causing odd behavior, spontaneous preaching and the perceiving of visions of prophets and messiahs. This phenomenon has [...]

I am never celebrating Christmas again.

This is the second year in a row in which I have spent the Christmas holiday essentially by myself. Last year, I was still sort of laid-up from having just had surgery, and didn’t feel like traveling. This year, of course, I am in Egypt.
Now—so that we are all [...]

Yah, elves really exist. Seriously.

In this report on NPR’s All Things Considered this week, we learned that elves exist—in Iceland at least.

Icelandic Elves – All Things Considered
Merry Christmas, if you’re into that. Otherwise, I hope that everyone is having a nice Tuesday: I know I am.

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I am not going to actually write today. Rather, I will just refer you all on to an interesting article by one of my favorite bloggers, Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic series.
Link to “Why We Should All Become Muslims”
Enjoy.

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Again, as I attempt to get back into my own groove after months and months of being a one-track monkey, I will be writing relatively frequently. So, that said, please bear with me as I bore even myself with the minutiae and details of my daily wheelings and dealings.
Things are coming together for this [...]