Back when I was in Cairo a few months ago, I had taken a taxi into the Old City to catch a free performance of the Whirling Dervishes (in T...

Cairo, in a word: golden. In many words: dusty, chaotic, crowded, teeming, wondrous, exhilarating, wild, urbane, sophisticated, whimsical, m...

Since Flickr is blocked here in the United Arab Emirates (among other sites such as X-Tube), I've decided to post another of my "r...