'Cooking' Turkey Jerky

My young friend Mohamed was horrified at the thought of me eating meat that I had brought with me from America three weeks ago, but figured that if he cooked it first that I would at least live through the experience. So, he brought a propane stove over, put my jerky in water, and boiled it for me. Next thing, bread appears and people start offering me all kinds of food. All I wanted was a little snack of jerky

Week long home stay in Ambaba

September 18th 2004
For one week during my semester in Cairo, my class dispersed throughout ‘Real Cairo’ for a weeklong home stay with a Muslim (most of us) family. By ‘real,’ I mean that it is off the typical tourist path of and I got the impression that many young kids in the area had not seen a westerner in person before. The neighborhood that I was ‘assigned’ to was off limits to our program’s stude ... read more

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The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a ser... ... read more

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