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    • A Store with No Door
    • A Walk through the Siwa Oasis
    • African Appliqué
    • Akhenaten at al-Amarnah
    • Akhmim
    • Arouset el-Moulid
    • Asyut Barrage
    • Bad Days for Nahdet Masr
    • Book Review: Discovering Downtown Cairo
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    • Celebrating the Egyptian Desert
    • City of the Past – Medinat Madi
    • Dakhla – The Inner Oasis
    • Desert Mystery – Rock Art
    • Destruction of Heritage-Dar el Kutub
    • Egyptian Post Office Museum
    • Eiffel in Egypt
    • El Mastaba Center for Egyptian Folk Music
    • Encode Studio
    • Fire and Ice
    • From Lebanon With Love
    • Kaber Sobhy, The Street of the Food
    • Katherine Tisné, an artist in two cultures
    • Marmalade Days
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    • Mohamed Mandour, Artist and Potter
    • Monastery of Virgin Mary at Deir Dronka
    • Nahdet Masr – Egypt’s Awakening
    • Narrator of Stories, an interview
    • North & South of Cairo
    • On being a dune
    • Qattara Depression
    • Ramadan Kareem: A sweet story, kunafa
    • Ramses Wissa Wassef
    • Raouf Zaidan, Egyptian opera
    • Red Monastery and White Monastery at Sohag
    • Saad Zaghloul Mausoleum
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    • SHUBRA: Off the beaten path
    • The Art of Living
    • The Honeymoon – February 12, 2011 Tahrir Square
    • Tombs of Meir
    • What exactly is a Rab’a?
  • Articles: Nigeria
    • A Monument and A Statue
    • A Yoruba Wedding
    • Afikpo Masks
    • Apapa Saturday
    • Art of Thorn Figure Carving
    • Beaches and Birds: A Lagos Weekend
    • Beaches and Birds: A Lagos Weekend
    • Bida Blacksmith
    • Bida Brasswork
    • Bida Glass: Bangles and Beads
    • Bring Back Our Girls
    • Durbar! – Nigerian Style
    • Finding Tolerance in Northern Nigeria
    • Footprints – Omo Forest
    • Grand Durbar – Festac 1977 – Kaduna, Nigeria
    • Indigo and the Turban
    • Memorial to Alhaji Essa Ndagi
    • Murtala Muhammed Botanical Garden
    • Nigeria by Rail
    • Nigeria to Togo: A West African Road Trip
    • Odogbolu Day 2014
    • Osogbo Revisited
    • Osun Osogbo Grove
    • Palm-nut Diner
    • People’s Paradise, Cross River State
    • Red Walls of Bida – Introduction
    • Red Walls of Bida – Part Two
    • Red Walls of Bida Revisited -2018
    • Roman Glass in Britain (and Bida)
    • Small Chop
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    • A Persistent Woman in Benin
    • African Appliqué
    • ARCE, Tanzania
    • Birds in Tanzania
    • Encountering the Delicate Balance Between Nature and Humankind in Tanzania
    • Ghosts of Slavery Past and Present (Benin)
    • Tanzania is not just in Africa….
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    • Queen of Fabric – Silk
    • Syria: destruction of heritage
    • The Damascene House
  • Cairo Family Guide
  • Cairo Practical Guide
  • Cairo Street Art
    • Adam Henein
    • Art of Fahti Mahmoud (1918-1982)
    • Art of Gamal Sigini
    • Bas-relief on Saad Zaghloul statue
    • Bedaya
    • Borg el Zamalek
    • Cairo Opera House statue, part 1
    • Cairo Opera House statue, part 2
    • Door Handle at Saad Zaghloul Mausoleum
    • Ibrahim Pasha
    • Lunar crater named Alfraganus
    • Nahdat Misr – Egypt’s Awakening
    • The Gallant by Mustafa el-Razzaz
    • Triumph Square
    • Umm Kalthoum – The Legend
  • Cairo Street Stories: Exploring the City’s Statues, Squares, Bridges, Gardens, and Sidewalk Cafés
  • Everything DURBAR
  • Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo
  • Nigeria Magazine
    • Archival Ads for Nigerian Railway
    • Arial Views of Lagos 1952
    • Art of Thorn Figure Carving
    • British Occupation of Lagos 1861-1961
    • Eko Bridge
    • LAGOS – Nigeria’s Melting Pot
    • Lagos in Portugal and Lagos in Nigeria
    • Royal Crowns in Yorubaland
    • Susanne Wenger at 100!
    • The Beginning of Modern Lagos
    • Wood-Carving at Owo Government School
  • Obelisque Magazine
    • Book Review: Discovering Downtown Cairo
    • Cairo Charm: Andalusia Gardens
    • Celebrating the Egyptian Desert
    • City of the Past: Medinat Madi
    • Dakhla – The Inner Oasis
    • Desert Mystery – Rock Art at Uwaynat Mountains
    • Durbar – Nigerian Style
    • Eiffel in Egypt
    • Encode Studio
    • Fire and Ice
    • From Lebanon with Love
    • Indigo and the Turban
    • Kaber Sobhy, The Street of the Food
    • Katherine Tisné: an artist in two cultures
    • Mohamed Mandour, Artist and Potter
    • North and South of Cairo
    • Obelisque 2018
    • Obelisque Magazine 2015
    • Obelisque Magazine 2016
    • Osun Osogbo Groves
    • Qattara Depression (Egypt)
    • Queen of Fabric – Silk
    • Ramses Wissa Wassef
    • Raouf Zaidan, Egyptian Opera
    • Saad Zaghloul Mausoleum
    • Siwa Oasis
    • Street Art – Ibrahim Pasha
    • The Art of Living
    • The Damascene House
  • Paddle Your Own Canoe
  • Silent No More: Special Needs People in Egypt
    • Chicago Journal: Review of Silent No More
    • International Journal of Middle East Studies reviews Silent No More
    • Middle East Librarian Ass. review of Silent No More
  • Silk Road: China and Central Asia
    • 4000 years in 7 days-Turkmenistan
    • Beijing to Tashkent: Following the Silk Road, the countdown
    • Dushanbe to Beijing
    • Dushanbe, city of roses
    • Festivals, Minorities and Landforms in Qinghai and Gansu Provences
    • Foiled at the Finish or Happy Eid el Kabir
    • Hotan, the Taklamakan and Walnuts
    • Kashgar, China…15 years too late
    • Kyrgyzstan – Art of Felt
    • Kyrgyzstan – Keeping It Real
    • Kyrgyzstan: Keeping it Real 2018
    • Lanzhou to Dunhuang: the Hexi Corridor
    • Liu Yunjiang, the Cricket Man
    • Nĭ hăo China!
    • Pamir Highway, Tajikistan
    • Pamirs : Tajikistan to Kyrgyzstan
    • Previously in Xi’an
    • Sogdians and Soviets: Monumental Samarkand and the Holy City of Bukhara – Uzbekistan
    • The Final Stretch – Karakalpakstan
    • The Ikats of Uzbekistan
    • Tibet, Friendship Highway and more…
    • Uzbekistan – the People
    • Xiahe to Xining to the Roof of the World
    • Yogurt Banquet Festival
  • This Old House – 1920
  • Unplugged
    • A Crossing
    • Apple Tobacco
    • Belonging
    • Boulgatanga
    • Cairo on the Edge
    • Carla loves Frank
    • Crucifix
    • NEPA DON QUENCH!
    • On being a dune
    • On the Road to Yola
    • Ristorante Italiano
    • Rue Saint Claude
    • Scattered Wings
    • Short Takes
    • Two Close Friends, autumn of ’64
    • Undreams
    • Whiff of the Rain
  • Women of West Africa
    • #Bring Back Our Girls
    • Mâtiné de Souza
    • Olatoun Williams:Reviewer of African Literature and Founder of Borders For All Nations
    • Princess Odiakosa,Chocolatier, a passion and a protest.
    • Susanne Wenger, Adunni Olorisha
    • Tearing at the Fabric: Peju Alatise Nigeria’s Art Activist
  • Writing Egypt
    • Muhammed Ali and Modernization

Foiled at the Finish or Happy Eid el Kabir

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