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From Egypt to India
Written by paula in Saturday, March 13th 2010   

We ended our 1.5 months in Egypt with an expedition through the White Desert, a strange and mystical portion of the Sahara where the crystal sand gleams like snow. Anvil- and mushroom-shaped white rocks, as high as 40 feet, jut from the ashen ground. This desert looks like the moon. The White Sahara Desert is [...]

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The story of Sayid
Written by paula in Sunday, January 3rd 2010   

We were in Aswan, Egypt; home to about a million sailboats. These simple wooden sailboats — called “feluccas” — carry people down the Nile River, toward Luxor. We had two desires: One, to visit Abu Simbel, a stunning Ancient Egyptian monument to Ramses II, carved in rock. Two, to take a felucca ride down the [...]

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Thou Shalt Dodge a Dromedery
Written by paula in Saturday, November 14th 2009   

It’s 3:30 in the morning, and I dimly spot a large object lumbering towards me on the gravely path. “Jimal! Left!,” someone calls out, and I duck to my right to avoid being run over by a camel. These creatures seem as heavy as horses, and getting stepped on by one would be an ugly [...]

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Mickey and Mayham
Written by paula in Thursday, October 29th 2009   

Even in a tropical paradise, sometimes its the strange people you meet — not the sunny place you’re in — that sticks in your mind the most. This is true of Dahab, Egypt. This beach town on the Sinai peninsula, near the Gulf of Aqaba, boasts some of the bluest, bluest waters in the world, [...]

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Crossing the Sahara
Written by paula in Friday, September 25th 2009   

We crossed the Sahara on a bouncy bus, gazing for hours at the endless sea of sand in every direction. The Sahara is barren, empty, desolate. We drive for an hour. Flat sand. There is no life here, no mercy. Leave someone in the sands without water, and they’d die quickly. We drive another hour. [...]

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Egypt: Salaam Alaykum
Written by paula in Saturday, August 15th 2009   

“Salaam ‘alaykum!,” we’re greeted at the train station in Alexandria. The man who says it, Mohammad Abdallah, was born and raised in the Sudan but lives in Egypt and holds a U.S. passport. In the early 1990’s, when he was a young immigrant studying in America, he lived with my friends’ family in Broomfield, Colo., [...]

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Egypt: the streets of Cairo
Written by paula in Wednesday, August 12th 2009   

It’s my first visit to the Arab Muslim world, and I landed in the middle of the Holy Month of Ramadan, stepping out of the airport just in time to hear the Call to Prayer boom across the city from the mosque speakers. From our hotel in downtown Cairo, we catch a birds-eye view of [...]

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