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Luxor Madness
Continue ReadingIt begins when you hit pavement in Luxor — a city upriver in Egypt on the Nile, and home to the biggest religious complex ever constructed: The Temple of Karnak, a human cultural analog to the Grand Canyon. Many folks live here in poverty hustling for a living, and survive on money extracted from […]
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An Essential Cairo Image
Continue ReadingAlong the streets in Cairo, Egypt wind always blows. It rarely becomes blustery, but rather oscillates between soft currents and vigorous breezes. Every flat in the city has a clothes line, either outside a window or running parallel to a balcony. Among the tender winds and the sunlight garments dry in an hour or two. […]
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Is This Spiritual Rage?
Continue ReadingI had luck enough to travel along the Nile River to the Temple of Dendera, where these photographs were taken during a restoration project. The temple dates from Ptolemaic times — in the few hundred years before Christ — and was built beside an oasis to worship Hathor, goddess of many realms including Sky and […]
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My Personal Favorite
Continue ReadingOf the spontaneous environmental portraits I have made, this is my favorite. He is a private tour guide, an Egyptian hustler with voluminous knowledge of travel by horse and camel in the desert. I could not have engineered this backdrop myself more perfectly. I thus caught his personality and his place in the world at […]
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Changing Cultures
Continue ReadingEvery world traveler has a tale of culture shock. I met a middle-aged man at a cafe in Istanbul before I plunged into the Nile Civilization; he constructed a sentence in a fashion I had not heard before. He made a city the subject, shock the verb, and culture with a possessive marker the direct object: […]
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Crossing the Street Egyptian Style
Continue ReadingI lived in Alexandria, Egypt for about a month and stayed two years in Cairo. The latter city sprawls on both sides of the Nile river, a metropolis containing 18 million persons, few personal vehicles but lots of taxis, delivery trucks and micro-buses. In most places there are no traffic controls whatsoever. Downtown Cairo has […]
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