… and lose myself in thought about the journeys we make. Journeys. Such a loaded word. As I read Eat, Pray, Love –a book which I was fiercely cynical of until I started leafing through and relating to the author Elizabeth Gilbert– I wondered about my own personal journey. During a ride back from a… [Read more…]
September 24, 2010
This is a blogpost I began in July, did not publish and never revisited until this moment. Back then I was reading this Arabic book called Love in Saudi — a text that is both sexual and daring from Page 1. The most creative bit in the storytelling, for me, was how both the author… [Read more…]
September 13, 2010
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 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…]
June 9, 2010
This was my first acting workshop. During the interview, I bluntly explained to the trainer that I have no acting experience, no interest in the art beyond observation and that I do not intend to become an actor. When he asked me, why I was there, I simply answered, “as a confidence exercise” and that was… [Read more…]
May 22, 2010
"The desert was about the void, the zero point, shrinking yourself and your concerns in the immensity and emptiness of it all. The desert was about a definite psychological need for vastness in the face of human confusion, brain fatigue."
April 22, 2010
The Halayeb triangle, Shalateen and Elba soon turned into a dream destination for me and my travel partner Amr El Beleidy for the sole reason that they seemed to be untouched spots on Egypt’s map. Because of border disputes with Sudan, the area was closed off to many “intruders” and was off-limit to foreigners who… [Read more…]
April 17, 2010
By Amr El Beleidy ‘Along The Watchtower’ Guest Writer People tend to think that their way of life is the best way to live, until they see a different way that impresses them. And sometimes we fall into the trap of being so self centered and closed minded that our baseline for what’s right and… [Read more…]
April 15, 2010
Relationships, that is. The title of the blogpost is a quote from In the Loop, a Brit-American political comedy about the lead up to the Iraq war. It’s uttered by a hapless British minister lost at finding a way to remain neutral in the face of belligerent US politicians and military men divided over preventing… [Read more…]
April 11, 2008
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