The Paris of the Middle East?
Taken from the plane as I was about to land in Beirut, this was my first view of the city known as the Paris of the Middle East. These buildings…
Taken from the plane as I was about to land in Beirut, this was my first view of the city known as the Paris of the Middle East. These buildings…
Alexandria is a city of the invisible and longing. Many years ago my father spent time here as a young man and, when he died, he left me scrapbooks of…
This was my room at the Hotel Metropole in Alexandria. The building used to be the Egyptian Ministry of Public Works where its most famous employee was the early 20th…
An ancient staircase frozen in time. Maybe the people on the floor above will be from a similar era.Photo: Annie, Paris
Thursday morning at 6.45 am I was on the streets of Amsterdam and heading for the greatest street party in Europe: Queen's Day, the day when the Dutch turn orange…
I found this exquisite stencil graphic attached to a rusty door by a bridge in Amsterdam. Was it placed there to commemorate the generations of homeless people who have slept…
I love vistas. The possibilities are endless. This one is located in the Gayer-Anderson Museum in Cairo. This 17th house is filled with furniture, carpets, curios, antiquities and artworks that…
The entry about Gregory (Nobody at Home, 8 October 2008) set me thinking about a dead person’s continuing presence in the land of the living. Here, memories are not enough.…