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Caitieskirt
Graduate Student
PhD student at the University of Exeter, England. I study Egyptian dance, tourism and globalization. I'm currently doing fieldwork in Cairo which will be followed by fieldwork at dance festivals all around the US and Britain. I like to crochet, once upon a time I worked as the compliance officer ...
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Landslide
Saturday, September, 6, 2008
There has been a landslide in an outskirt district of Cairo near the Muqattam Hills. That is way over on the eastern fringes of Cairo itself, not near where I’m staying or where I will be living. I am fine. Life downtown goes on. I only wish that my Arabic were stronger so I could follow the local news instead of waiting for BBC World.