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It's been said that the Kurds have no friends but the mountains ( Read more... )

in cairo we went to a village of copts. there is this Thing that was afoot there for a long time, where the garbage collectors, many of whom are copts, were recycling 80% of all cairo's material - through old-fashioned sifting. when mubarak privatised the waste disposal services egypt's recycling rate got a lot less impressive. anyway, some of them ( Read more... )

When I want to cheer myself up, I head for Ferdousi Street, where Mr. Ferdousi sells Persian carpets ( Read more... )

Veganistan is a zine of Middle East & Maghrebi vegan recipes. It's also an attempt to smash popular misconceptions that you can’t be a healthy, happy, belly-rubbin vegan in the Mid East. Follow a kaleidescopic 40 page journey through soups, dips, breads, spice blends, salads, falafels, pastries, grains, stuffed stuff & sweet things & feast til ya ( Read more... )

not that anyone's liable to contact me through here ever, but in case of ¡¡eljay emergency!! you can find me at:

1. not the internet
2. the arctic circle

for the next couple of weeks

Study the drawings below. Devise an economical set of binary semantic components that would allow us to distinguish each object from all the others. Give the componential analysis for each object, according to your system. There are several possible solutions.


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it's almost a year to the day since i crossed the border from israel into egypt. it was maybe today, last year, that i got the call from my ray ban-clad lawyer that the supreme court had passed the decision we all knew was coming since my clandestine journeys back to the west bank became less so (thanks ha'aretz). one week to get out ( Read more... )

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