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The Hazmat Suit
Chengdu, December 2022 8 am knocking on the door. It’s aggressive. Flashbacks to when I stayed in the Chinese hospital in Shanghai for my foot surgery. “zuo he suan!” (do the pcr!) a woman’s voice calls. I stumble out of bed, turning on the light, first thought, barely awake – mask. Must find mask. Once…
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A Qualitative Study of Ramadan in Egypt
A qualitative study across class and gender of the transient mini-verse of Ramadan in Egypt. by Amanda Tapp “Ramadan is an example of how humans differentiate themselves as different from any other type of being – the spiritual value you get from fasting, from understanding what it means to fast. Understanding that your mind is…
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The Nausea: Seeking Refuge
I knew I was looking for something, but I didn’t know what. I had decided to hike Gabal Mousa (Mount Moses aka Mount Sinai) alone, with a Bedouin mountain guide, several months before I finally went in the beginning of November, 2020. In October 2020 I had to first renew my tourist visa in order…
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An Ode to Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own”
The Poor Poet Virginia Woolf had written about women needing space and the means to think and create. This means the time and resources, in order not to have to work – nor be obliged to be a housewife, and be able to have the time needed to create. For a man, it is different,…
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Will you?
Will you? Will you grow, evolve, and transgress past the endless societal obligations like the boundless waves of a sea and transgress, into eternity? past what our mothers and fathers have drilled into our heads our heads that were once filled with play-things, toys and pacifiers we replaced these with books, games and school then…
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Egypt is, to me…
Egypt is, to me, a blind man standing calmly on the side of the street waiting for someone to help him cross over. Within 10 seconds, a boy ran over and held his arm to help him across the busy street. Egypt is, to me, when I was stuck in an elevator and before long…
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The Greener Grass
The wealthy little boy sat Uncomfortable in his blazer and tie He stared miserably out of the schoolbus window His outlet into what he thought was freedom The poor boy sat In his tattered and dirtied clothes On the back of a truck He stared miserably back At the wealthy little boy Wishing to have…
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Sinai
Drifted into a dream The sea gurgling next to me like A newborn baby The dome peppered with stars, witnessed Shooting stars flirting- A rip in the canvas And another one… and another I could not help but ask To the sky: What are you? ———————————————– August 8, 2019 Nuweibaa, South Sinai, Egypt…
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A Call for Pedagogical Reform
“There is a fundamental crisis in our global education system. Today’s global education systems are primarily designed in the form of disciplinary learning. This method of disciplinary learning constrains the learner into a number of commandment that must be the underlying basis and start towards analysing and examining the subject matter.”
Amanda Tapp 