Climbing the mount at the back of the temple on a well worn path is contra-indicated by the signage.  The island temple was rescued by Europeans from the rising waters of the high-Aswan Dam. Controlling Read More …

The layered clothing shelters people from the hot and cold swings of day and night.  In the courtyard of their house the couple shares hibiscus tea with visitors and with an appropriate gift might apply Read More …

Carefully weaving bead patterns onto textiles, the woman sits in the morning sunlight.  The step, the door, the shadows and the platter of beads hint at pattern and colour.  In the wall that surrounds the Read More …

Legends and stories combine.  On the Nile, one of the riverboats we used was called the “Titanic”.  The captain was proud of the tourist attraction the name was — it was valuable for tips, valuable Read More …

The marker arranged sign points to columns.  I am sure that the columns are not urinals.  Yet, in the barren desert land nothing seems to make sense.  The colonnade of columns leads the eye toward Read More …

Pausing to pump gasoline speaks to the present.  The ground surrounding the pump a blend of gasoline, diesel-oil and sand pressed under wheels and foot into a near macadamized road.  The heat of the day Read More …

The kicking sands of desert time have their corrosive ways of burying temples, tombs and palaces.  Beneath the rolling mounds, gathered by wind and time, archeologists and stumblers have found history lessons that predate 3000 Read More …

There is an imbalance in the drug industry.  In Cairo, at the end of January a large Egyptian drug pedlar hosts a soirée so elaborate that even the streets of Cairo were turned into conduits Read More …

The overloaded transport (small pick-up) carries fresh fruit to several markets.  Carefully weaving unmarked roads and horn blasted right-of-ways.  There are more vehicles than road space and the scratches on the sides of vehicles carry Read More …

The congested traffic sign directing visitors to the Giza Pyramids seems almost redundant.  This is Friday and a two day weekend is starting.  The big box coffins punctuate the horizon.  Small burial sites dwarfed by Read More …