Warning: This blogpost makes blatant generalizations about travel writing, and spends an awful lot contemplating why death and travel have much in common. The thoughts may be incoherent at times, and conclusions are loose. There’s much recycled from emails to a particular unlucky friend, and the beginning and ending may not tie together. You see,… [Read more…]
June 29, 2010
“Sovereign of my heart, Regina, kept safe and secret in the deepest corner of my breast.” I’m big on psychology theorists these days, and while searching for e-books for Rollo Reese May (since I failed to find any hardcopies in our distinguished book-stores across Cairo), I came across works by Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, psychologist and theologian. I… [Read more…]
June 16, 2010
I was reading through some of the posts on Evolver.net and www.realitysandwich.com, and this post reminded me of an old dream: discovering that I really don’t belong to this world, for some reason or another. Or at least that I don’t belong to the mundane version of it, which I’m living through right now. Looking… [Read more…]
June 14, 2010
A friend of a friend called Don Young wrote the following words and I found them to be an immaculate rendition of thoughts that haunt most of us, they touched me … Young says, “We come up with rules, regulations and social norms for everything. We create these imagined realities for ourselves and then we… [Read more…]
June 10, 2010
I was sitting at this concert at Darb 1718 watching ‘El Dor El Awal’ whisk people away with their tunes to a far away world, when I remembered him. His name was Khaled Mohamed Sai’d and he was beaten to death by two police officers. The reasons why are not important and, at least to… [Read more…]
September 13, 2010
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