Cairo Sorting out the experience as I pack to leave Cairo, I find my thoughts something of a jumble. The trip was amazing for all of us. One of the Organizers’ Forum delegation pointed out to me for example how amazing it was to him that in the evaluation no one mentioned the Pyramids or …
Author: wade
Cairo 2050 Plan and Egyptian Revolution Postponed
Cairo The weekend in Cairo is Friday and Saturday. On the Friday day of prayers organizers had called a rally to reignite the spirit of Tahrir Square, predicting a vast assemblage of people with some promising that a million would be in the square. The call had been to speed up the process and …
Lively Controversies in the City of the Dead
Cairo Not far from central Cairo is a walled cemetery centuries old and filled with mausoleums, often speaking of the riches of the dead in the same way that the pyramids spoke of rulers hundreds of years before them. The area encompasses hundreds of acres and Costanza La Mantia, who was walking us through the …