Under no circumstances could I let this opportunity pass without paying a visit to Giza and its pyramids. So, very early one morning, having started at dawn to avoid the traffic, I was passing beside the welcoming Sphinx and I was ascending that corridor, watching those pyramidal tombs swelling in my sight as I was getting closer to them.What an unparalleled emotion does one … [Read more...]
A Bedouin in Mount Sinai
...By noontime, as I was climbing down the mountain from the same path and reapproached that little village in the narrow valley, a jovial Bedouin man, standing by his garden’s threshold, invited me to his home. His name was Ramadan. He was one of the 15-20 patres familias who had created this heavenly oasis amid this inhospitable, divine environment.We perched in a … [Read more...]
