I wrote about Farouk El-Baz’s plan to fix Egypt in The Boston Globe.
Filed under: Boston Globe, Egypt, Middle East
19 April 2013 • 2:35 pm 0
Tourism Trap
I reviewed Elizabeth Becker’s Overbooked in the Wall Street Journal.
Filed under: Wall Street Journal, books, travel
10 October 2012 • 4:54 pm 0
A Tarnished Jubilee
From Kampala, for the IHT.
Filed under: International Herald Tribune, New York Times, Uganda
29 September 2012 • 6:37 pm 0
The Blasphemy Divide
At The Boston Globe, I have a piece about the different ways in which the West (the U.S., really) and the Muslim world (and Europe) approach blasphemy.
Filed under: Boston Globe, law, Middle East, religion
29 August 2012 • 4:28 pm 0
Cairo, City of Fights
A report for the IHT.
Filed under: International Herald Tribune, New York Times, Egypt
3 July 2012 • 4:26 pm 0
A History of Mob Violence
On public violence in Cairo. (IHT)
Filed under: International Herald Tribune, New York Times, Egypt
14 April 2012 • 6:35 pm 0
Trouble in Timbuktu
At the Boston Globe Ideas section, I wrote about the history of Timbuktu.
Filed under: Boston Globe, history, religion
9 April 2012 • 7:48 pm 0
Invisible Hand to Mouth
Originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal.
An Economist Gets Lunch
By Tyler Cowen
Dutton, 293 pages, $26.95
“Let’s be clear,” Tyler Cowen writes in “An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies,” an eccentric first-person hodgepodge of gastronomic thoughts, strategies and travel stories. “Every meal really matters to me.” Readers of his blog, Marginal Revolution, know that he means it. Nominally devoted to economics, the site also catalogs meticulously the ethnic restaurants in the Washington area. In a typical post, he’ll review a new Bolivian restaurant and compare it not only with other Bolivian restaurants but with others serving food from the Cochabamba region. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Wall Street Journal, books, food and drink
