It never occurred to me how devoid of people this sight of Giza’s Great Sphinx is until reader Jeff mentioned it in one of the comments. I .. more ..

Day 1078 on the road A long time ago I made a list of 50 places in the world I wanted to try and visit during my life. I have already managed to see a fair bit of these but not yet the lesserknown backwaters of Kerala. Together with betterknown places like the pyramids in Egypt Angkor Wat in Cambodia or indeed the Taj Mahal here in India Kerala has always been on that list. Not surprisingl

American relations with the Arab world have been strained for decades; Israel’s relations with the Arab world barely exist. But the Arab world itself is not all of a piece. The outright enemies of Israel and the West–preeminently, Syria and Iran–are political totalitarians, using the terrorist proxies of Hamas and Hizballah to engage in or threaten open war against not only their publicly defined adversaries but everybody around them. Most of their victims, indeed .. more ..

The first time I traveled to Egypt I was shocked at how Islamicized the place is compared with other Arab countries I’ve visited. It’s liberal compared with Saudi Arabia, but that’s not saying much and, besides, I’ve never been to Saudi Arabia. Egypt is still the most conservative Muslim country I’ve ever seen. It’s hardly less Islamicized now than it was in the middle of the last decade, but modern liberal “Western” culture is nevertheless a little more visib .. more ..

Egyptian journalist Sharif ‘Abd Al-Ghani doesn’t understand what Zionism is, but he does know what raw hatred of Jews is, and he doesn’t like it. So he pushes back in a daily Qatari newspaper. Why does our sheikh – and we behind him – shower all these curses on the Jews, but then add the expression ‘peace be upon him’ when speaking of their prophet Moussa [Moses]? Are the Jews not peop .. more ..

Dusk was falling as we drove across the causeway onto Fatnas island, surrounded by reed .. more ..

A beach holiday is a great way to get away from all of the stresses of home, and just find the perfect way to relax and enjoy some time away from it all. Egypt is a country that has some of the best beach .. more ..