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While we are on the topic of social media and political/developmental discourse, I just read this NYT op-ed by Rami G. Khouri. Khouri makes a case for a  valid point: the rift between U.S. policy on democratization in the Middle East when it comes to...

While I was working on my masters in International Development, I wrote a paper on how we can use social media to observe current social discourses on various themes, or what I specifically termed "grassroots developmental ethos". In non-academic jargon,...

...and provided that you can read and understand colloquial Egyptian Arabic (the Upper-Egyptian dialect, to be more specific), you really should read Gawabat Haragy El Kot (The Letters of Haragy EL Kot) by Abdel-Rahman El-Abnoudy. Take masterful...

Source Cairo is a truly fascinating city. It is an immense jumble of everything: people, vehicles, concrete, animals, junk. If you are a first-time visitor, not familiar with how things go in Cairo, the city mercilessly attacks your senses and...

So recently I went to a couple Broadway shows and a spoken word show. Here's the skinny: 13 Great show! It's about this hip New York teenager who moves to Appleton, Indiana due to his parents' divorce and the interactions he has with his peers in high...

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People who "random through the street" are definitely a nuisance in Cairo. via Gridskipper

I have posted before about the mind-boggling beauty of man-machine coexistence on the streets of Cairo. Here is another example of such fantastic equilibrium, this time in Egypt's second largest city. This is a picture of a one lane street in a...