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Townhouse's Model Citizens Exhibit
Townhouse is about to close its month-long exhibit “Model Citizens,” in which a team of a dozen artists (working from over 10,000 photos of Townhouse’s neighborhood) created an extre… more →
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Townhouse's Model Citizens Exhibit
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Sasha wrote 3 months ago: Townhouse is about to close its month-long exhibit “Model Citizens,” in which a team of … more →
Have your haircut and smoke it too
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Sasha wrote 4 months ago: In a city where thousands of women cover their hair, it should come as no surprise that there aren … more →
Reactions to the bomb in Khan El Khalili
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Sasha wrote 4 months ago: News travels quickly in Egypt. Perhaps even quicker than it does in the US. Within a half an hour of … more →
Cairo's Conspiracy Theories
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Sasha wrote 4 months ago: Conspiracy theories in Cairo… They’re told everywhere. From our bawabs to our taxi drive … more →
Philip Rizk and "This Palestinian Life" Screening Downtown
Sasha wrote 5 months ago: Tonight I attended the screening of Philip Rizk’s documentary film called “This Palestin … more →
Turns out, there actually is a reason why women wear four inches of eyeliner in the ME
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Sasha wrote 5 months ago: When my best friend came from New York to visit last December, she couldn’t help but comment o … more →
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Sasha wrote 5 months ago: Someone should commission a study on vernacular language usage in downtown Cairo. Combinations like … more →
Egyptian boxer briefs remind customers: "Be Hard!"
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Sasha wrote 6 months ago: A few friends and I were doing our downtown rounds when we stopped at the Omar Effendi near Talaat H … more →
Y3ni eah "Robert Fisk is full of shit" bil 3rabi?
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Sasha wrote 6 months ago: “How do you say, ‘Robert Fisk is full of shit’ in Arabic?” Gaza: the topic d … more →
Bush shoe attack talk in downtown Cairo
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Sasha wrote 7 months ago: Two nights ago, I went to Al Hurraya to see some friends. As usual, I ended up running into a thousa … more →
The Cairo Blues
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Sasha wrote 7 months ago: Apologies for not writing much at all lately… I’ve kind of had a case of the Cairo Blues … more →
The Darndest Folks- Cairo, the International Circus
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Sasha wrote 7 months ago: One of the great things about living in Cairo is the wackos that quickly become your close friends, … more →
Allahu akbar or Allahu... 25 piastres?
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Sasha wrote 7 months ago: In Cairo, Allah is everywhere… At least his name is. In my elevator, “Etheker Allah … more →
Baghdad a little too close to home
Sasha wrote 7 months ago: Tonight when I got home from work, my friend “Ali” (name has been changed) called me. A … more →
Baby, there's shit outside
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Sasha wrote 7 months ago: It’s nearly the end of November, and the temperature high for tomorrow in Cairo is 26 degrees … more →
5 tips for dating Egyptians
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Sasha wrote 8 months ago: In my fairly knowledgeable experience of dating Egyptians, I’ve compiled a short, and definite … more →
Why I shed cultural sensitivity for ham sandwiches and overnight visitors
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Sasha wrote 8 months ago: I spend about two or three hours every morning reading Arab press from Syria to the Gulf. Bad covera … more →
Voting with the enemy
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Sasha wrote 8 months ago: I finally dragged myself to the US Embassy to submit my emergency absentee ballot yesterday. It was … more →
My taxi partner, Leila, and the K word
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Sasha wrote 8 months ago: Every morning I share a taxi with a woman from work who lives in the building next to mine. Her name … more →
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