Posts Tagged ‘Middle East’

Portrait of Saad Zaghloul, leader of Egypt’s 1919 revolution

The tattered portrait of the man who led the Egyptian revolution of 1919

What makes Egypt beautiful

This exceptionally moving interview reveals what is at stake for the protesters in Egypt

Chabrawichi 555 cologne: Cairo, Egypt, 1998

An Egyptian cologne that in enclosed spaces tends to linger almost in perpetuity


Reading Slate on the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia

In Tunisia it may be Jasmine but in Lebanon it wasn’t really Cedar