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Egypt:

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The mosque of Muhammed Ali, with its slender and elegant twin minarets, is one of Cairo's most prominent landmarks. It is visible in the two photographs of Cairo that I've already posted. Muhammed Ali was appointed as the Ottoman Viceroy...

Weekend photo

Another view from the minaret....

Weekend photo

It actually rained very lightly while we were walking along this small beach in Alexandria about three weeks ago. Generally though, the weather in Egypt was warm and sunny - in stark contrast to the wet and windy weather...

A peek into my week in Egypt

I'm back in London after a hectic - but fantastic - week in Egypt. Of the hundreds of photographs that I took on the trip, this is one of my favourites. It shows part of old Cairo as seen...

My language is on the brink of extinction

Coptic leaf from the Gospel of Mark, Egypt, c. AD 500. (Southern Methodist University)  Nearly half of the world's 7,000 languages are likely to become extinct over the course of this century, according to an article in the NY...

Egyptian blogger identifies his torturer

Abdel Monim Mahmoud, an Egyptian journalist and blogger, has identified (in Arabic and English) a prison officer who allegedly tortured him for 13 days at a state security headquarters back in 2003.  27-year-old Mahmoud is a member of Ikhwan Muslimin...

A caricature of me

A caricature of me, aged about 4, by Bahgat Osman (1931-2001). During the 1960s and '70s, Osman was Egypt's most outstanding political cartoonist. He was a close friend of my father's, and I have vivid memories of him from...

CT scans suggest that the "heretical" pharaoh was Tutankhamun's father

Most people recognize Tutankhamun as the boy-king of ancient Egypt. He is the most well-known pharaoh because his tomb was discovered apparently intact* and, more importantly, because it contained the magnificent gold mask that has become an icon of...

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