Articles Written By Amira Pierce
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Personalities
Letters from Egypt: Tourist Travails
Living abroad means you’re not quite a tourist—you have an address, after all—but you’re certainly not a local. What are you? Amira Pierce reports from several recent trips around Egypt, trailed by scantily clad visitors.
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Personalities
Letters from Egypt: Short, Cautionary Tales
Hotel bombings and terrorism aside, it’s the daily alien frustrations and local rituals that put the grit into living abroad. Amira Pierce reports from Cairo on the small infuriations that make her city unique.
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Opinions
Ramadan and Firecrackers
What happens when a normally mad city decides to stop eating during daylight hours, stop smoking and drinking and sexing while it’s light out? A report from Cairo, a vibrant city alternately united and crazed by hunger.