Apr 2, 2010 Posted by saaleha

We confirm…

Tweet … Lucille’s in Maadi does indeed make the best burger on this planet. When the menu says the chili cheese burger comes smothered in chili and cheese , they’re talking real mo’ fo’... read more

Feb 10, 2010 Posted by saaleha

15 – fi misr

Tweet At a masjid fi misri just before maghrib I find jidatee* with her nose in His Signs, while a metronome of bone on bone keeps time with each fatha, each kasra. Those knees creak as much as the scuffed plastic of her chair. She’s not really my grandmother. I hear only one word out of her hundred. “Ana la atakalam arabiyya”, that’s... read more

Feb 8, 2010 Posted by saaleha

Pedobear fi Misr

Tweet We spotted this on our way to the Cairo Book Fair: Acute Fail. read more