Egypt | Egypt
Dec.28.2011
On the Feast of the Holy Innocents...
One view of the conflict in the Middle East from the THE TWAIN, POEMS OF EARTH AND ETHER. It will also be included in the JERICHO ROSE collection.
The Virgin Speaks
We had to go a different way – I suppose it was to be expected – Taking the...
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Dec.12.2011
A friend wrote to me this week with an enormous question. Everything she's been working on and for hit an obstacle of enormous proportions. Violence in Egypt has derailed her project, a play about redemption and understanding. The concept, the substance, and the form came to her like a apparition,...
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Nov.23.2011
The latest developments in Egypt provide life and death lessons on the nature of politics and movements that seek to end oppression. Egypt’s February 2011 popular uprising, along with Tunisia’s immediately preceding uprising, were triggers for the Occupy movement. Developments in the Arab world are...
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Nov.16.2011
This is a bit long - take it in doses.
I am walking in the rain, rain jacket and hat, shoes getting soaked. The little ginkgo trees line the street like small yellow torches. I am a million miles and time from Cairo. The long commute home efficiently dropping a thick gauze between me and my...
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Nov.06.2011
I spent the morning practicing with the camera and then waiting for my ride to Dalia’s for rehearsal. Two actresses were picking me up, but they had never really been out of their neighborhood and so got very lost. They finally arrived to get me 1 hour late and then it took 2 hours to get the...
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Nov.03.2011
I didn't think this trip would happen. It seemed that everything conspired against it, including me - could I meet the challenge, am I shirking my responsibilities? All the possible, need-some-security jobs fell through. I designed my class at the homeless with a flexible schedule (so I didn't...
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Oct.26.2011
Although it does mean one from Bohemia, it has other meanings too. I’ve been confused as to what it really means so I did a little research. Originally the Bohemians of Medieval times were non-Europeans who distinguished themselves apart from other Europeans due to their transient, non-conforming...
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Oct.25.2011
My wife and I traveled on a C141 across the Pacific once. I was in the Air Force and we were stationed at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa, Japan. For vacation, we chose to fly to Hawaii. Why not? Hawaii is a lovely place and the military has a hotel and many hotels and places offer military discounts....
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Oct.24.2011
About Lynn Voedisch
Lynn Voedisch is a Chicago journalist and fiction writer with many years experience working for newspapers and magazines. She is a member of the America Society of Journalists and Authors and the Society of Midland Authors, where she is one the board of...
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Oct.05.2011
Being Abbas El Abd by Ahmed Alaidy
In a Cairo circa 2003, inhabited entirely by 20-somethings, the narrator — who may or may not be named Abdullah — gets into terrible jams and awkward situations thanks to a slovenly roommate named Abbas el Abd, who is either a demonic trickster or a...
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