Today I left my sixth floor flat in downtown Cairo
which I have called home for the last 11 months. A year ago to this day, I was
packing up my room in Vienna and celebrating
with a party in my flat there as I prepared to make my move back to Egypt . This
time, I’m moving just across the Nile to a
friend’s apartment in Dokki, where I’ll stay for three weeks before a summer
holiday in the States. I’ll be back in Cairo
at the end of August to continue writing and studying Arabic, hopefully in an
even grander downtown apartment.
The “view from the sixth floor,” which was the original
basis of this blog, has been rendered less literal by today’s move. But it is
still figuratively expressive of the goal of my writing: to provide a
reflective insider’s view of the significant events and issues taking place in Egypt less than
a year and half after the popular uprising that removed Hosni Mubarak from
power. I have begun supplementing these blog posts with contributions to
PolicyMic, an online news platform, and I am also working on a few freelance pieces
which I will post once they are published (inshallah!).
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