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Thursday, November 20, 2008

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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

I Will Sing When You’re All Dead

Professional opera singer, mountain climber, race car driver, and Vladimir Nabokov’s best translator and collaborator, Dmitri Nabokov has led an impassioned life. MATT EVANS offers an impassioned profile.

Cause and Effect

What’s the Point of Giving Thanks?

Matthew Baldwin investigates the grand tradition of gratitude.

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The Chicagoan

The Second City citizen’s eponymous magazine, which initially ran from 1926 to 1935, is revived in the form of a well-produced, well-illustrated coffee table book.