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Feb.11.2011 Possibility Lives The trip across town early this morning for my swim workout was dark, of course, as the swimming begins predawn. Street lights were still bright at that hour, and the air was cold. Later when the sky faded from indigo to pale blue, it was evident that the day would be clear and promising. I made a...	Feb.10.2011 Cairo Wonderful photo from Cairo on the front page of today's (paper and ink, delivered to the door) NYTimes: a high shot of the light streams made by the candles of protesters circling a tank. Really the most hardened cynic would have to admit that there is something thrilling, perhaps hopeful,...
Feb.10.2011 Raising my shoes at Mubarak in solidarity with crowd in Tahrir Mubarak's speech was unbelievable—and endless. An endless, whiny, incoherent speech casting himself as martyr and refusing to leave. The oddest part was the translator, who kept groaning audibly, and sounding terribly annoyed. I've never heard anything like that. He was channeling my emotions...	Feb.06.2011 Denial in de Nile The whole world holds its breath as we view through splayed fingers the unrest that is the Egyptian uprising. Or as Hosni Mubarak sees it: 10 or 20 rabble-rousing unemployed slacker agents of the West with too much time on their hands up to no good. That's the problem with entrenched...
Feb.06.2011 Three cups of tea in Egypt When we were heading to Egypt last year, we knew we were going to get sick. As much as everyone told us to drink bottled water and avoid tea, how could they seriously expect us to pass on the buffet in our hotel where half of the things were not cooked but looked like if we didn’t try, we’d die...	Feb.02.2011 Woof Wednesday: HOWLING FOR EGYPT! The dogs got their due this past Monday and today is a departure for me. I’m not a political person by nature. But I am human. And watching the tragedy unfold in Egypt becomes even more personal when friends stuck in the situation provide blow-by-blow description. I feel so helpless! Heike (last...
Feb.02.2011 Omar Yussef predicted Cairo and Tunis If you’ve been wondering why the people of Tunisia and Egypt have risen up against their dictators and why it caught Washington with pants down, it’s because you didn’t read THE FOURTH ASSASSIN, the latest of my Palestinian crime novels.In THE FOURTH ASSASSIN, which was published exactly a year ago...	Feb.01.2011 Great report, and historical perspective on Egypt I'm getting more cardio done the past week, because I can't pull myself away from the Cairo TV feeds on the elliptical. I have been tweeting the best print pieces I've seen, and here is one of my favorites, just up on Slate: We Are Making Our Future A dispatch from the massive protest in...
Jan.30.2011 North African Age of Pegasus II North African Age of Pegasus II First published by Klaudio Zic Publications, 2011 http://stores.lulu.com/astrology Copyright © 2011 By Klaudio Zic. All Rights Reserved. No part of this material may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or otherwise, for commercial...	Jul.17.2010 Willow on the "Draw Muhammad Day" Scandal in The Washington Post http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/07/by_g_will...

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