? Is that the bmuezzin/b? I know it is the month of Ramadan right now, I guess it wouldn't surprise me,? I said. Sure enough, the bmuezzin/b was belting out the call to prayer with a bullhorn? at 2:00 in the morning! Where am I? ... This is where the whole 'Are you really ever on bvacation/b when you are a Peace Corps volunteer?' question comes from. The woman who made the food was pissed we never ordered anything. Her evil eyed looks told us to stay away. ...
I have been in Cairo for two weeks now and despite the dire warnings of friends who had toured the city on brief vacations, there is a lot of beauty here. The city has been hard to get used to, with its heat, its dust, its crazy dogs ...
Daniel Finkelstein has a wonderful opinion piece in the Times Online today about diversity and immigration, and the reason why the muezzin call to prayer must be rejected by Britain. While he acknowledges, as I do, that the disturbance ...
