Archive for the ‘Egypt’ Category

Cruising Down the Nile

Posted by Sam Singh on May 21st, 2009 under Egypt  •  3 Comments

                      Pictured: The Temple of Kom Ombo.
Part of my trip through Egypt included a three day Nile Cruise. A friend of mine from college, Katie Armstrong, found me on Facebook and mentioned that she always wanted to go Egypt so I told her to organize a trip and I would join her.  Another of my [...]

Flat Mallory’s Last Stand and Syria Round Up

Posted by Sam Singh on May 15th, 2009 under Egypt, Jordan, Small World Experience, Syria  •  No Comments

Flat Mallory's Last Stand
As I was finishing up my tour of Syria, I had an e-mail discussion with Mallory's father, Steve, about getting Flat Mallory home.  Mallory's project was due on April 30 and Flat Mallory needed to be back in Owosso for the festivities.  I was initially thinking that I would send Flat Mallory [...]

Don’t Call it Swine Flu in Egypt!!!!!!!

Posted by Sam Singh on May 3rd, 2009 under Egypt, Policy, governance and nonprofits  •  No Comments

A reader recently asked me about the coverage of the swine flu epidemic in Egypt.  I had begun to hear about the epidemic when I arrived to the country from Jordan.  There hadn't been much local perspective because there hadn't been any cases found in the Middle East at that point.  Most of the [...]