• Light Switches Outside of Rooms
Especially when that room is a bathroom. It is embarrassing when you are a guest at someone’s house and you ask to use their bathroom, and then have to fumble around in the dark for much longer than is...
View Article• The Filing Room at My Work
The UN building that I work in is a converted hospital. Set in a prison-like compound in an unknown residential area in the middle of the freaking desert, it is a four-story building with security...
View Article• Catching a Cold When It’s Hot
As I’ve mentioned before, it can get hot in Cairo. On Sunday the temperature was 45ºC/113ºF in Cairo, and on Monday it was 43ºC/109.4ºF. It remained 40ºC/104ºF until after 10:00 p.m. that night. This...
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