Adrift on The Nile – A Film from Egypt, Mahfouz
Adrift on the Nile is a 1971 film from Egypt, directed by Hussein Kamal, who has some 10 movies to his …
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Middle East Literarary Landscapes
I gave, and received, this year a notable reminder that the cultures of the Middle-East — Iranian, Arabic, Turkish– have …
More Warmth More Snow
From Wunderground: The remarkable Post-Christmas blizzard of 2010 has ended for the United States, as the storm has trekked northeastward …
Wedding Song by Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
Wedding Song, by Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Prize winning Egyptian author, was written in 1981 well into his writing life which …
De-ratting the Islands
Invasive species stories read like 1950s horror films – The Blob, The Think, The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Rabbits …
Gobal Surface Temperature Keeps Rising: Japan Meteorlogical Agency
21 December 2010 Japan Meteorological Agency Global Temperature in 2010 Most Likely Second Warmest (preliminary) The annual anomaly of the …
If We’re Warming Why Is It So Cold?
As last year, the climate change deniers are chortling into their snugglies: If we’re warming (like the commies claim) why …
The Sand Fish – a Novel from Dubai
The Sand Fish, a novel by Maha Gargash of Dubai, apparently written in English, is another of the suggestions for …
Women’s Prison — Iran
Quite unlike any women-in-prison movie you might have seen, or contemplated seeing, Manijeh Hekmat’s 2002 Women’s Prison, from Iran offers no …
An Engineer Ponders Santa Clause
There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not usually visit children …
390 And Rising
A sketch of the founding father of global warming science, Charles Keeling, in today’s NY Times. As a young man …
The Thief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
I wrote last week about an Egyptian novel, Stealth, by Sonallah Ibrahim, which while I liked I felt presented certain …