Egypt | Egypt
Jun.20.2010
JERUSALEM — Time was anyone with an interest in the Middle East could be guaranteed a couple of books a year would be brought out by U.S. journalists based in the region. Now many of those correspondents are history, with news bureaus closing and those that remain cutting back. The new books...
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Jun.05.2010
June 13 Toronto: Ben McNally’s Books and Brunch 10am-12:30pm. For tickets, visit Ben McNally Books
June 15 Seattle: Elliott Bay Book Company (new Capitol Hill location) 7pm FREE
June 17 Denver: LoDo Tattered Cover, 7:30PM FREE
June 22 Boulder, CO: Boulder Bookstore, 7:30PM FREE
July 7 San...
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May.30.2010
To read the excerpt, visit http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/magazine/30lives-t.html
‘The Butterfly Mosque: A Young Woman’s Journey to Love and Islam’ comes out on June 1st!
Willow will talk about her book at the “Globe and Mail/Ben McNally Brunch” on Sunday, June 13, 2010. Please...
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May.27.2010
Open the door, let the wind throw your curtains into the room, walk onto the terrace, let your hair whip like fan blades
Lie on the floor, after yoga, read poetry from cover to cover, speak the words aloud. Say "I am as lazy as the Zambesi,/"
Move the crocodile made...
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May.18.2010
The classes are run by teachers from England and Ireland and other places where Mr. Nigel, Miss Kim and Class Five's teacher, Miss Dierdre found the advertisement. They have taught around the world and the El-Gouna International School may be in Egypt, but it's still like teaching around the world...
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May.11.2010
Resort menus often have a theme--Carribean night, Luau, Mamma Mia. Since we are in Egypt, along with the pasta and the goulash, the chef makes an attempt to add some thematic presence. Tonight, "Oriental" menu--as in Orientalism, not the great wall of China. The buffet, the pamphlet said...
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May.10.2010
This morning the wind is giving the palm trees swan necks, they are bending their heads toward the ground. It's a relief from the heat and the humidity but mostly the mosquitoes. My hair pitches around stabbing at my face instead of sticking to my scalp.
Yesterday was the final day of the tour and...
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Apr.17.2010
Plumes of ash crawl across the sky from Iceland onto the eastern seaboard of this small island. Soon it might even fall on this house and onto the clothes line and even onto the tiny onions that creep with timidity out of the earth and may drown what is already there, what has taken so much...
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Jan.14.2010
The Guardian asked me to contribute to their regular feature in which authors pick their top 10 novels on a particular subject. Read my top 10 novels set in the Arab world here. Most of the writers I picked are Arab, though there are a couple of Westerners and Tariq Ali is a Pakistani. This, by the...
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Jan.06.2010
Mr. Ahmed Aboul Gheit Minister of Foreign Affairs Egypt
6 January 2009
Your Excellency,
Since the first Intifada of 1989, when I first visited the occupied Palestinian territories, I have been working at some level or another for the relief of the Palestinian people living under brutal...
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