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Articles of the author Josh Stump
108 Minutes: Amman, Jordan
AMMAN, Jordan: Jordan's capital is as different as they come in the Middle East. White and cream colored buildings shining in the sun are what you might notice first giving Amman a strange almost un-city like aspect with its absence of strikingly (...)

26 - 12 - 2010
India, Poe and backpacking
I traveled through India in the winter of 2004, carrying a small backpack, a copy of Edgar Allen Poe's “The Raven” and an old canon 35mm camera. On a previous trip across South East Asia, I used a massive backpack filled with things I never used (...)

26 - 10 - 2010
Tap water for Egyptians
CAIRO: A common question asked by visitors to Cairo is “can I drink the tap water?” Many Cairenes have no problems with drinking the water. The Nile River is Cairo's main source of water and begins in Burundi and Uganda passing through the Sudan, (...)

11 - 06 - 2010
108 minutes in Amman, Jordan
AMMAN, Jordan: Jordan’s capital is as different as they come in the Middle East. White and cream colored buildings shining in the sun are what you might notice first giving Amman a strange almost un-city like aspect with its absence of strikingly (...)

10 - 02 - 2010
Egypt: Somali women pay way into country
CAIRO: Somali women are resorting to extreme measures to leave their war-ravaged country to find a new beginning by using Egypt as a stepping-stone to Europe and America. After Cairo tightened immigration laws in 2008, women have begun paying Somali (...)

26 - 01 - 2010
What's in Egypt, Israel walls?
CAIRO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to build a barrier on its boarder with Egypt to prevent refugees crossing into Israel illegally. Israeli police say up to 200 illegal immigrants cross into the Jewish state every week (...)

18 - 01 - 2010
Gaza Freedom March Madness: Day Three
Cairo: Cairo is currently experiencing civil disobedience, Western style: during the protest in front of the UN on Monday, four were arrested; along the road to Rafah from Al Arish, Spanish activists have been staging protests; the French delegation (...)

31 - 12 - 2009
Gaza Freedom March Madness: Part One
Cairo: While its official day one was the 28th of December, Code Pink's Gaza Freedom March began in Cairo to commemorate Israel’s Gaza offensive, Operation Cast Lead, and to call attention to the blockade with two meetings and several events on (...)

29 - 12 - 2009
Gaza Freedom March Day Two: Arrests, a UN protest and Joe Sacco
I have, in the weeks prior to Code Pink D-Day of the 28th of December, received many e-mails and updates. I’ve been informed 85-year-old Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein will be joining the march, American telecommunications companies AT&T and (...)

29 - 12 - 2009
India, Poe and a backpack
I traveled through India in the winter of 2004, carrying a small backpack, a copy of Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Raven’ and an old canon 35mm camera. On a previous trip across South East Asia, I used a massive backpack filled with things I never (...)

28 - 12 - 2009
Egypt: Tap water for all?
CAIRO: A common question asked by visitors to Cairo is “can I drink the tap water?” Many Cairenes have no problems with drinking the water. The Nile River is Cairo’s main source of water and begins in Burundi and Uganda passing through the (...)

25 - 12 - 2009
Steve York talks “Bringing down the Dictator”
CAIRO: Steve York is the director of the documentary “Bringing Down a Dictator”, which focuses on the fall of Solbodan Milosevic, beginning with his stepping up of violence in Kosovo in 1998 and ending with his defeat in 2000 largely by the efforts (...)

15 - 12 - 2009
Risk and reward of investing in Africa
CAIRO: Remi Bello, co-founder of B&M Consulting – formally Bello & Manchau Political Risk Consultants – talked to Bikya Masr recently on focusing on the risk and reward of investing in Africa, responsible investing and China’s role in creating (...)

26 - 11 - 2009
Analysis: Hamas, Fatah and Egypt
CAIRO: With the Egyptian initiated October 26th reconciliation pact between Palestinian faction’s Fatah and Hamas unsigned, hopes for a future Palestinian state are in serious doubt. From the deadlocked recent talks in Cairo, some commentators are (...)

22 - 11 - 2009
Egypt: Tap water for all?
CAIRO: A common question asked by visitors to Cairo is “can I drink the tap water?” Many Cairenes have no problems with drinking the water. The Nile River is Cairo’s main source of water and begins in Burundi and Uganda passing through the (...)

15 - 11 - 2009
Prisons in Egypt
CAIRO: Sadly human rights violations by Egyptian police and security forces are today all too common and have beginnings well beyond the time of Nasser. This long sordid history of abuse has served not as a deterrent, but as a reminder that the (...)

08 - 11 - 2009
Egypt: NDP's ‘just for you' conference leaves Egyptians skeptical
CAIRO: The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) began its 6th annual three-day conference in Cairo on Saturday under the title “Just For You,” which included an opening speech from President Hosni Mubarak to a crowd of 2,500 NPD party members and (...)

03 - 11 - 2009
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