After you’ve been in Egypt for a little while, even a week, you start to realize that a basic understanding of Arabic must start with the following conversation: “Saba al khir?” (There are three ways to say Good Morning in Arabic, and this is the most common one. It means “Morning the Good.”) “Saba al [...]
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After lunch, I wanted to smoke a hookah. Mohamed, our other guide, laughed. “You mean a shisha, my sister. What kind of flavor do you want?” Shisha (called a hookah in places like Turkey), is tobacco is soaked in molasses. Often, the molasses is flavored, I guess so it’s a little like dessert when you smoke it after dinner. It turns [...]
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This is the next installment of my book, tentatively titled, “Travels through Egypt.” After visiting the Temple of Sakkhara, we always go to the same restaurant, one of everyone’s favorites on the trip… In the afternoon, after Sakkhara, we stopped a desert oasis for lunch. On our way down the steps to the open air [...]
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This is the 2nd excerpt from my work-in-progress memoir, Travels Through Egypt. This is the last part of chapter 3. If you have a suggestion for the name, let me know. I’m about halfway through writing it, and I’ll try to publish a chapter a week. *** Food helps to ground me, but for two [...]
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