Adventures of Isabel

It’s always  a little sobering to hear about bombs going off in places I’ve recently been.

Khan al Khalili, January 2009.

Al Hussein Mosque

Al-Azhar area
It’s interesting, though, that because I subscribe to the Jaiku feeds of several Cairo-based journalists and bloggers, by the time I woke up this morning I had more detailed and complete news sitting [...]

On February 11, the Philippine Supreme court ruled Daniel Smith, the US Marine convicted in the Subic Bay Rape Case must be handed back over to Philippine Authorities, providing the latest twist in a high-profile case that has dragged on for two and a half years.  The US Embassy, which has maintained custody of Daniel [...]

Guess where, and when, the following lines were written (in literal if not literary translation):
This unredeemed people
may perhaps succumb in the struggle,
but only its corpse
can be yoked by alien tyranny.
Yankee! If you defeat us
with the powerful weight of weapons,
you will not live happily, because you are hated
even by the air of my native land.
Yankee! [...]