Sick, Again?

Exciting news is that I think I may be getting sick again.  I was cutting up some raw meat in the kitchen a while ago to help with dinner, and I started feeling queasy all the sudden.  It’s been a while since I dealt with meat, and I thought maybe it was just that so [...]

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No Oasis

Well, we put off the oasis until next weekend because we couldn’t find enough people to go today to justify the expense of renting the microbus.  We are going to go this coming Saturday, when we will be guaranteed an extra three passengers – Max has three friends from college coming in this week, staying [...]

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Soccer

By last night I felt almost fully better, with only a residual headache bothering me and all the nausea gone.  Max and Lizz were going to a party held by people in Lizz’s program, but I still didn’t feel up to that.  Instead, Ben and I decided to go watch the soccer game between Russia [...]

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Egypt Bans FGM

Since it’s something I’ve written about a few times recently, I thought it was worth noting here that the Egyptian legislature recently passed a law banning FGM.  Of course, this doesn’t mean the practice will end any time soon, but the hope, it seems, is to make the practice less common.
One of the more interesting [...]

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Sick

So, I was sick all day yesterday and am still not feeling all that great.  I woke up yesterday morning with aches in my joints and a bit of queasiness, and as the day went on it just got worse and worse.  Around four in the afternoon, I decided to cancel my Arabic lesson, which [...]

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Horreyya

I went to my first Egyptian bar last night.  Sam had really wanted to go to a bar while he was here, but we never ended up going because Max never quite could stay up late enough to go out.  But last night, I went with some non-roommate people that I only barely know to [...]

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The Violence Against Women Act

Substantively, this is a short break from my normal Egypt blogging.
The other day, in response to a question about domestic violence in Egypt, I mentioned in passing the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).  It was only marginally related to what I was talking about, and I threw it in as just a random data [...]

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Egyptian Tex-Mex

I realized today that I hadn’t eaten meat in four or five days – not since the party for Tahmid, and even then it was only little bits of beef in the hummus we ordered.  This has to be a record for me.  All the sudden, my diet has come to consist primarily of rice, [...]

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An Unfortunate Language Partner

I’m subscribed to a listserv that is primarily for westerners living, working, and studying in Cairo.  It’s fairly useful, even if it clogs my inbox – it’s how I found my apartment.  One of the things advertised a lot on the listserv are language teachers or language partners.  Language partners are a sort of language [...]

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Arabic Lesson

I’ve been sort of bad about writing since the party, mostly because there just hasn’t been a lot going on this weekend.  We all, for the most part, hung out around the house and stayed in cooking for our meals, so there really wasn’t anything exciting to report.  One of the only little amusements of [...]

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