Because I have something to say about everything. ;) This year more than ever, I had really been looking forward to coming home.  I was homesick, missed my family, and…

I would have posted this earlier last week, but I've been insanely busy.  I apologize in advance, as there will be no sacred cows.  If you have any, don’t read…

“Egyptian women sexually harassed at anti-harassment rally,” read this week's headlines.  Well isn’t that ironic?  On Friday, a few hundred women staged an anti-harassment rally to protest the sexual harassment…

“El-Tet” 24/7 Belly Dance TV Sorry, this is going to be long. I have a lot to say.  If there’s anything positive coming out of post-revolutionary Egypt, it is the…

Yes, I’m talking about that M. McDonald’s. The place in which no self-respecting American traveling abroad would be caught dead. We Americans who travel abroad suffer from a sort of…

Eat My Feet This post is for all the guys, real and virtual, who have ever said they want to kiss, lick, bite, tickle, rub, suck, wash, or eat my…

Audiences One of the perks of being a contracted dancer in Cairo is that you get to perform quite regularly.  Some of us work a few nights a week. Others…

Audiences One of the perks of being a contracted dancer in Cairo is that you get to perform quite regularly.  Some of us work a few nights a week. Others…

I’m not Egyptian and I don’t pretend to be, but I would be lying if I said I haven’t picked up a few Egyptian habits. Being Egyptian is contagious. Particularly…

I’m not Egyptian and I don’t pretend to be, but I would be lying if I said I haven’t picked up a few Egyptian habits. Being Egyptian is contagious. Particularly…