Matt in Egypt

My program in Alexandria is over.  Went to the Sinai Peninsula with friends.  'twas splendid. Really it was. Climbed Mt. Sinai. Threw a ...

Semi important detail from my experience here in Egypt: My name, Matt, in Arabic means "He died." Not only does that start most co...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Thanksgiving in Egypt is not the same as at home but we managed to do well for ourselves. Wednesday night, we, ...

A friend once told me that a good way to remember how to distinguish "dessert" as in sweets and "desert" as in giant san...

I meant to include this story in the previous post but forgot so here it comes. While in Aswan we visited Elephantine Island, an island in t...

Almost as if our program wanted to treat us for Obama's victory, we took a trip to Upper Egypt and visited the cities of Aswan and Luxor...

Yesterday my friend Ali invited some of us to his home in the Nile delta province of Kofer al-Sheik. It is about an hour's drive to the...