Istanbul is a wonderful city. We arrived by plane last Wednesday from Cairo. Compared to Cairo this city is an entirely different world. The streets are clean, the air is clean, people obey traffic rules. Unfortunately everything is more expensive as well. It feels like a European city in its atmosphere, western dress, and advertisements. [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 7, 2008
finals and the answer to conflict
It’s finals time already for me. Five papers and two tests this week. Needless to say I’m having the time of my life.
We talk a lot of politics here. The majority of what we do is politics. I hated politics before I came to Egypt. Now I have a sick fascination with international [...]
