CU Abroad – Maurice Chammah

In 2009, I am guessing that most Americans who travel to a “distant” or “exotic” country are initially disappointed by the lack of real difference from their home. They can pull money out of foreign ATM’s with their American cards, speak to foreign taxi-drivers who know English, and eat familiar food at “foreign” Pizza Huts.  [...]

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I will generally try to avoid snapshot-style reports from Cairo, but in my first three days, the city has presented itself as an intensely chaotic wave of sensory experiences, that really can’t be described with any continuity. Without having my feet on the ground, this sense of flux is at once a lonely confusion and [...]

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