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lelyn

Bright and Hot, Your Man in Cairo

I I made it to Egypt, finally, and I survived the first 48 hours. I haven't really studied Arabic much since I graduated three years ago, but I am happy to report that apparently I know how to speak Arabic quite well. I won't be staying in Cairo. It is far too expensive to rent an appartment here in...

lelyn

Poetry Upon Leaving Egypt

I Nizar Qabbani was a Syrian poet born in 1923, and died in 1998. When he was 15 his sister, then 25, committed suicide because she could not marry the man she loved. Hence his famous saying: "Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free." His second wife was killed in a...