I wrote about Farouk El-Baz’s plan to fix Egypt in The Boston Globe.
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Tourism Trap
I reviewed Elizabeth Becker’s Overbooked in the Wall Street Journal.
From Kampala, for the IHT.
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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.
A report for the IHT.
On public violence in Cairo. (IHT)
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Trouble in Timbuktu
At the Boston Globe Ideas section, I wrote about the history of Timbuktu.
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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.
Graeme Wood 