I peer down the dark, narrow channel and start counting my breaths…
Category: Egypt
Egypt Arrival: Kindness And Dark Pyramids
After my stopover in London I fly through the night to Cairo. Beside me sits a sweet Egyptian grandmother whose kids are in London, coming home to support her husband through the death of his brother. I share my headphones with her. She teaches me how to tie a headscarf so I’ll attract less unwanted attention to…
Takeoff (or, why am I going to the Middle East alone?!?!)
Emotional security should come from the precariously stacked, dog-eared copies of travelogues, political commentary, guidebooks and historical fiction piled in my kitchen, living room and bedside table, right?
