The day was February 11, 2011. About an hour before Friday prayers began, while walking through Cairo’s crowded Tahrir Square, a man named Mahdy grabbed the sleeve of my shirt and said, “Hey, where you from?” He had a beard (that’s him in the center … [Read more]
Rainy Post-Inauguration Visit To The MLK Jr Memorial
Two days after the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, still cringing from the hyper-nationalism of his inaugural speech, still yearning for rhetoric more truthful and hopeful and universal, I stood in the cold … [Read more]
The Inauguration Of Barack Hussein Obama (A Look Back)
On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. Also on that day, and in the same city (Washington DC), the man in this photograph was selling newspapers on 14th Street, just outside the Columbia Heights … [Read more]
10 Reasons To Love Estonia
For about three weeks in July 2015, I traveled around the country of Estonia, bumping into the Baltic Sea to the north and west, the Latvian border to the south, and the Russian border to the east. I loved Estonia, and wished I could have wandered it … [Read more]
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