Ramadan day 11; كتاب مالوش اسم، التأميم

I've been fasting from food everyday so far except one. So far so good.

Here's some of what I did today, going to try to memorize this by Tuesday, it's the first half (3min long) of a text by Ahmed El asili about nationalization. Sorry for the background noise; it was recorded above Ramses Square at the Everest Hotel :-)

His book, kitab maloush ism (book without a name) has been very useful to me in learning Egyptian. Thanks!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37788909/Kitaab%20Maloush%20Ism/nationalisation.mp4

Cairo, Day 983

Today –Saturday– was a good day.

Four different girls felt the need to touch my soft short hair :-)

Dokki Metro Station. My favorite exit.

Some downtown graffiti. Notice "Gika" in the bottom right, he'll appear again further down.

I finished reading "A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian". Very fun book.

I went to book club. Today we talked about "Black Faces, White Masks" and "the Yacoubian Building" as well as the general "otherness" theme.

Yacoobian Building style. See the boy, the old lady, and the two girls?

BookClub-goers admiring the view

Then I hung out with Namaai kids at Makan for an open mic and a discussion on two short movies. All in Arabic, I could understand almost everything.

حب عميق

After that, had the regular kofta sandwich in dokki sq. Now back home, organizing photos and this week's lovely blog posts by Safy :-)

RIP Gika, whoever you are.