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Conveniently, we have scheduled our trip to IsraelPalestine during the Palestinian elections as well as the impending doom of Ariel Sharon. Nothing like potential political unrest to keep your mom up at night worrying about you ( Read more... )

Soooo.

If your identity has been formed in the context of a particular culture and community, what happens to your identity when you are not in that culture and community anymore?

This is not (only) a theoretical question. I predict this post gets zero responses in reply to it. I mean, really, what are you supposed to say?

Right now the person I feel the most intellectual kinship with in Egypt is Mariam Kamel. This is a little unusual first of all because Miriam is 11 years old and second of all because we know only a little of the other's language. I have been trying to help Miriam and her classmates Ingie and Nadia study their grade six English books a couple of ( Read more... )

It's true that there are some rising tensions, in moments and in pockets at least, between Christians and Muslims here, that there were demonstrations in Alexandria last week that got violent. It's true that this morning I met a man in church who organizes "fraternity days," when Muslim and Christian children get together to play and to sometimes ( Read more... )

On September 24, I hiked Mt. Sinai and Conrad and Julia got married (I think).

C-RAY-Z, like the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

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Rilo Kiley's playing at Messiah College on September 2nd.

BE THERE SINCE I CAN'T SUCKAS.

Oh Giant, there you sit in all your suburban glory where K-mart used to be before we got a newer and bigger one. How I loathe thee for thy Giant-ness, thy lack of local alternatives, thy compliance in the many unhealthy practices of the food industry as it exists in the United States today, thy refrigerated shelves lacking doors that make me ( Read more... )