See end of this post for latest update 23 June 2013 Sometimes I wonder if I am one of the few sane people left on Planet Earth or if I am totally insane and simply under the illusion I am sane, intelligent and HUMANE. Maybe those who personally know me can help me with that…
Reflections on the lost symbols of Egypt—the Djed, Tyet, and combined Ankh+Djed+Was—and how these amulets connect us to Heka magic, offering strength, focus, and a touch of the sacred in daily life.
Secret to dealing with street hassle in Luxor! Learn how to navigate the persistent calls of “Fellucca! Tax! Calesh!” and more.
Why did Akhenaten risk everything, fly in the face of the entire Egyptian priesthood, close the temples, and move everyone hundreds of miles into the desert to worship “the One God”? According to the Christian Bible, Joseph, the Hebrew Patriarch, was betrayed by his envious brothers at the age of 17 and sold into Egyptian…
ancient Egyptian myth of Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys — gods of love, chaos, death, and rebirth
Once upon a time – a long, long time ago, in the time when nothing existed (God) the All That Is (RE, the Creator or Creative Impulse) self-created himself in the form of the God Atum. He then spat out of his mouth a male named Shu and a female named Tefnut – and so…
“Where once walked kings and queens in awe and reverence — today you step in the faeces of horses and camels.” After years of guiding tours across Egypt, I returned to Giza hoping for quiet reflection inside the Great Pyramid. What followed was intimidation, scams, and heartbreak at what the site has become.
Prepare for your Egypt trip by understanding vaccinations and medical preparations.
Do you feel the change? I feel it. I am home in Ireland, with my family for Christmas and New Year – the best in my entire life……and I can feel the change. It feels to me like the entire world is slowing down, like the systems we have known and lived under are grinding…
Haven’t written in ages – simply had nothing I considered interesting to say. Been in Ireland, then Cairo and now back in Luxor. In light of all the media hype the last few weeks I wanted to write something but couldn’t muster up any enthusiasm for it. However, my friend Edward has taken the time…
I opened up my Twitter this morning and one of the first tweets I found was the following: “There have been riots in Cairo over the presidential election results:” and the headline on the paper itself when I clicked on the follow through link was Anger in Egypt: riots in Cairo over election results Naturally my…
Making a film in Khan el Khalili about Napoleon
Internet app developers sometimes don’t know when to leave well-enough alone!
“Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness” grand words, great aspirations, magnificient vision! Do you have these natural and “unalienable rights”? We have gone through a revolution of sorts in Egypt and I am questioning the validity of it, the sense of it – was it of value? Will there be change? Will Egypt be…
I haven’t written much on any social media over the last few weeks – impulse to write just dried up and so I let it be. Then I woke up this morning talking to myself – this is how I end up writing stuff down, to stop it going round in my head 🙂 What…
Luxor people want the tourists to return
The day did not start well for me….5.30am I am woken up by what sounded like a crowd of angry people shouting in the street outside….I wait about 10 mins and instead of fading away in the distance it had become louder…so I hopped out of bed, grabbed a jacket, unlocked doors and rushed to…
If a picture paints a thousand words…..
Been out shopping this morning – to my local food and veg market etc here in Cairo. The atmosphere seems to have shifted somewhat…..everyone I spoke to had two things on their minds. Firstly, they are all happy that the newly elected parliament have actually gone to work today!! I am watching them all been…
One year later – what is the reality of the “Arab Spring”? Who has gain what? Who has lost what? What is the future for Tunisia? Egypt? Libya? Syria? Yemen? Iran? Saudi Arabia? I’m not a political analyst but some things are pretty obvious…..Tunisia? A year ago one young fruit seller set himself on fire…