Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Patsy Cline is a Menace to Public Order

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Cairo is still under a midnight curfew, and while I'm told that in many parts of the city it's observed halfheartedly if at all, my ...

Friendly Neighborhood APC

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The tanks on my street are starting to blend into the background, and that sense of normalcy worries me. I still see kids and teenagers clim...

The Colorless, Umm, Something

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Egypt is yesterday's news. Even the transnational Arab press is more interested in Bahrain, Yemen, Libya and so on. It's a useful re...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Go Gently

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When Ben Ali fell, I heard arguments calling for him to be refused safe haven in other countries, and that he should be dragged before the H...
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Gone

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Mubarak is actually gone. I have to admit that right until it happened, I was sure that he wouldn't. My theory, which may still not be t...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Nothing to Believe In

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I just saw Mubarak/Mubarnacle's non-resignation speech, in English and then Arabic, to make sure it wasn't suffering from a bad tran...
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Monday, February 7, 2011

The Interior Ministry

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[From January 30th. I think this is the last of what I had written down, aside from some scribblings that never went anywhere. That said, I...

So you want to be a journalist

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[From January 29th] Even under normal circumstances, Cairo is full of foreign journalists and would-be journalists. It's considered an e...
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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Out of the Cradle, Now!

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[Another post written today] In my scholarly life, when I'm not frantically reading the news and worrying about my friends in Egypt, I r...
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Slow is the Enemy

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[This is not something that I wrote in Egypt. It is something I wrote right now, from Istanbul, watching the news coverage with increasing f...
Friday, February 4, 2011

Thug Life

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This is one of the first things I wrote on Friday afternoon, when the internet had been out for about 12 hours: It took me about thirty seco...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

The Inevitable Political Speculation Post

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From January 29: I spend an incredible amount of my time and mental bandwidth speculating, obsessively, about what's happening and what...
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Pedaling While Rome Burns

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From January 30: Against all odds, the gym is open today. A while back, I got sick of the AUC Falaki gym's irregular hours, so I joined ...
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Window shopping

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From Thursday the 27th. This went into one of the last emails I sent out before the internet went down. Someone suggested I put it up becaus...

The anti-Lawrence

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I wrote this late at night/early in the morning, when I had decided to go. I'm not sure it's the most flattering portrait of my thou...

The things that aren't happening are just as important as the things that are

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From my last night in Cairo, right before I decided to go: I get the impression that people back home are worried for me. What I've bee...

Hearth and Home

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From January 30: I hear rumors of impending food and water shortages, but right now, I've never eaten so well. For better or for worse, ...

The Egyptian Revolution, not the Twitter Revolution

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Written right before I left for the airport: It's amazing to me that despite the fact that the internet blackout here is near-total, pe...
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I (Don't) Want to Believe

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From January 30th: When I heard yesterday that thousands of people had escaped from prison, I didn't believe it at first, nor did I beli...
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Deck Chairs and Airline Seats

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When Mubarak appointed Shafiq, the former aviation head, as prime minister, I wanted to throw something at the TV, because the cabinet reshu...
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Molotovs

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From the 29th, when kids were throwing Fanta bottles, then eventually molotovs, at the cops guarding the Interior ministry right outside my ...

The Colorless Revolution

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Nobody has, to my knowledge, named this uprising after a color or a plant. No cedar or green or jasmine here, so far. I find something glib ...
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