Cairo Alight: a series on lamps
Cairene Lamps
Wat gat nou hier aan?
We've been here for just over three months and we still haven't figured out what this framed tapestry on the lounge wall is all about.
Sweet Alexandria
In a glass lightly
Wadi Rischrasch
Sometimes, Cairo, with all of its rich fullness and grainy texture, displaces the mind's quiet.
Omphaloskeptical
My hands cradle the rising beneath my navel. Moon-breaths dictate this ebb and flow of my repose. It has been just three months and the miracle biology in my belly has rendered my profile alien but soothing. My fingers probe [...]
We confirm…
... Lucille's in Maadi does indeed make the best burger on this planet.
therein lies the proof (or things to eat & feel in Egypt)
Cairo
you are;
In the maws of mugamma*
The go-to captain slash commissioner of oaths slash instrument for the Will of God was so bad-ass, he smoked right under the sticker telling him he couldn't. You don't argue with the dude with the stars on his shoulders and [...]