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Amira Pierce

Amira Pierce recently left Brooklyn and now lives in Cairo, Egypt.

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. (Personalities | April 7, 2005)

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. (Personalities | January 6, 2005)

Letters from Egypt: 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? Amira Pierce reports from Cairo, describing her vibrant city alternately united and crazed by hunger. (Opinions | November 4, 2004)


TODAY’S FEATURE

The Game of Love

Anyone who says video games shouldn’t appeal to adults, let alone women, has never flirted with General Carth Onassi. MARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT explores a virtual courtship.

OUR MAN IN BOSTON

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Like the man himself, Gore Vidal's scrapbook of the past half-century is unparalleled.

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RoseLee Goldberg

RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, curator, and author of Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. In 2004, she founded PERFORMA, a non-profit arts...