“Ironic Points of Light” by Bronwen Durocher
A friend of mine wrote this on her blog, The True Fight, and I found it to be an insightful appraisal how many of us feel during these times of frustration, […]
A friend of mine wrote this on her blog, The True Fight, and I found it to be an insightful appraisal how many of us feel during these times of frustration, […]
Here is an article that I recently wrote for the Quilliam Foundation’s blog: Nowadays, feminism comes in many forms. The current existence of an array of feminisms disqualifies (or should […]
Originally posted on Africa is a Country (Old Site):
About a month ago, we came across the ‘World’ series by Dutch photographer Ruud van Empel. Initially, his art stood out because…
Yesterday, on behalf of the organization I’m interning for, I attended a conference on female genital mutilation at Amnesty International’s London office. Here is the writeup that I did for […]
After a long hiatus from blogging, which was predominantly due to a lengthy period of intellectual dormancy brought on by five months living in the suburbs of New Jersey and […]
Please God. Please make it stop.
Pretty sad and disturbing story coming out of Cairo.
Salaam friends. It has been quite a while since my last post due to my return to the States, work, and general laziness. Since I last posted, I’ve left Egypt, […]
I was at a club last night in downtown Cairo with some friends and I had an experience that I thought was comical and worth sharing. My friends and I […]
Throughout much of Egypt, especially the greater-Cario area, the Nile’s luster and magnificence of times past have long since been eroded away by urbanization, population increase, pollution, lack on environmental […]
Here is a nice little anecdote from Cairo… It is becoming clear that petty street crime is on the rise in Cairo and it is most likely due to increasingly […]