The other day I was accosted by one of those damn college students with a cause. I cant stand those little punks, dont get me wrong, causes have their purpose and someone has to fight them but if I talk to another amateur student tree hugger who doesnt know a damn thing about their cause […]

I was sitting with the boys celebrating my Egyptian-ness (i.e. sitting around, drinking tea, smoking sheesha and being lazy) and we got to talking about friends living and working in Saudi Arabia or as I like to call it, “The Place Where Happiness Goes To Die”. (No apologies so dont ask.) Anyways we were chatting […]

I was walking downtown when I saw this “bum” and this sign…

I walked up to him and said, “hey I’ll give you a dollar if you let me take ur picture.” He said sure and then revealed that he wasnt really a bum, just a “traveler” who was trying to collect money to go to […]

Kareem Amer, Egypts most famous victim of persecution has written a letter from behind bars and you should definitely read it.
Here it is!
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I like to consider myself somewhat of an accurate analyst but sometimes the context of Egypt politics and social peculiarities are too much for me to comprehend so I resort to sitting back and accepting it as one of those things that make the country what it is…an upside down mess.
The most recent mess is […]

I arrived yesterday morning in California, my plane landed in a suburb of LA called Ontario. As expected it was a tiny, pathetic excuse for an airport but who cares, the ticket was cheaper and still close to my friends place.
My plane was actually just stopping in Ontario California and then continuing on to Honolulu […]