Comments for Jack's Cairo Chronicles http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack The life of a couple of American ex-pats in Cairo Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:15:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Comment on Closing a circle by tedder http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=412&cpage=1#comment-16941 tedder Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:15:34 +0000 http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=412#comment-16941 useless without pics. useless without pics.

]]> Comment on I went to the bathroom all by myself! by Jack's Cairo Chronicles » Closing a circle http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-16899 Jack's Cairo Chronicles » Closing a circle Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:14:50 +0000 http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=26#comment-16899 [...] It was seems like a lifetime ago, I posted this. [...] [...] It was seems like a lifetime ago, I posted this. [...]

]]> Comment on The Zebiba by tony biggles http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=119&cpage=1#comment-12249 tony biggles Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:22:06 +0000 http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=119#comment-12249 I have spent more than 15 years in Muslim countries, Oman, Kuwait, Malaysia and Pakistan, and have visited a host of other Muslim countries, including Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Bahrain, UAE. I do not recall noticing the zebibah in Oman, Kuwait or Malaysia - maybe I was not looking properly. In Pakistan I did notice it, though none of my close colleaugues in a university sported it; whereas a few lecturers - not youngsters - did. I have noticed it in Egypt, but it clearly is not confined to that country. My chowkidar (house 'guard') in Pakistan prayed at every call to prayer on his prayer rug, a sincere devotion quite beautiful to behold - but he did not develop a zebibah. I greatly respect genuine religious devotion, whatever Faith; I am inclined to believe that the development of the zebibah is a deliberate attempt to indicate piety, which would surely be impious, but I am prepared to be told by medical experts that it may depend upon the physiology of a particular individual. The bottom line: don't get too worked up about it and don't trade insults. Strive for mutual respect. I have spent more than 15 years in Muslim countries, Oman, Kuwait, Malaysia and Pakistan, and have visited a host of other Muslim countries, including Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Bahrain, UAE. I do not recall noticing the zebibah in Oman, Kuwait or Malaysia – maybe I was not looking properly. In Pakistan I did notice it, though none of my close colleaugues in a university sported it; whereas a few lecturers – not youngsters – did. I have noticed it in Egypt, but it clearly is not confined to that country.

My chowkidar (house ‘guard’) in Pakistan prayed at every call to prayer on his prayer rug, a sincere devotion quite beautiful to behold – but he did not develop a zebibah. I greatly respect genuine religious devotion, whatever Faith; I am inclined to believe that the development of the zebibah is a deliberate attempt to indicate piety, which would surely be impious, but I am prepared to be told by medical experts that it may depend upon the physiology of a particular individual.

The bottom line: don’t get too worked up about it and don’t trade insults. Strive for mutual respect.

]]> Comment on The Zebiba by tony biggles http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=119&cpage=1#comment-12248 tony biggles Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:19:49 +0000 http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=119#comment-12248 I have spent more than 15 years in Muslim countries, Oman, Kuwait, Malaysia and Pakistan, and have visited a host of other Muslim countries, including Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Bahrain, UAE. I do not recall noticing the zebibah in Oman, Kuwait or Malaysia - maybe I was not looking properly. In Pakistan I did notice it, though none of my close colleaugues in a university sported it; whereas a few lecturers - not youngsters - did. I have noticed it in Egypt, but it clearly is not confined to that country. My chowkidar (house 'guard') in Pakistan prayed at every call to prayer on his prayer rug, a sincere devotion quite beautiful to behold - but he did not develop a zebibah. I greatly respect genuine religious devotion, whatever Faith; I am inclined to believe that the development of the zebibah is a deliberate attempt to indicate piety, which would surely be impious, but I am prepared to be told by medical experts that it may depends upon the physiology of a particular individual. The bottom line: don't get too worked up about it and don't trade insults. Strive for mutual respect. I have spent more than 15 years in Muslim countries, Oman, Kuwait, Malaysia and Pakistan, and have visited a host of other Muslim countries, including Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Bahrain, UAE. I do not recall noticing the zebibah in Oman, Kuwait or Malaysia – maybe I was not looking properly. In Pakistan I did notice it, though none of my close colleaugues in a university sported it; whereas a few lecturers – not youngsters – did. I have noticed it in Egypt, but it clearly is not confined to that country.

My chowkidar (house ‘guard’) in Pakistan prayed at every call to prayer on his prayer rug, a sincere devotion quite beautiful to behold – but he did not develop a zebibah. I greatly respect genuine religious devotion, whatever Faith; I am inclined to believe that the development of the zebibah is a deliberate attempt to indicate piety, which would surely be impious, but I am prepared to be told by medical experts that it may depends upon the physiology of a particular individual.

The bottom line: don’t get too worked up about it and don’t trade insults. Strive for mutual respect.

]]> Comment on Where am I getting my info? by gaffer girls http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=408&cpage=1#comment-12246 gaffer girls Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:58:21 +0000 http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=408#comment-12246 thanks jack .. found u this morn .. all out love mo & the girls thanks jack .. found u this morn ..
all out love
mo & the girls

]]> Comment on Bless his heart.. by Ed.W http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=405&cpage=1#comment-10423 Ed.W Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:53:46 +0000 http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=405#comment-10423 Well, bless your heart. :-) Well, bless your heart.

:-)

]]> Comment on Yeah, kinda like that… by Martin Golding http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=397&cpage=1#comment-9192 Martin Golding Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:41:55 +0000 http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=397#comment-9192 Coming from here, Egypt was full of Wonders. If you went more places, you'd find more Wonders. You could, eventually, become surfeited, and care no more for wonders. Or you could realize that your there is their here and that the world is bloody damned FULL of Wonders. Then people would get annoyed because you looked so smug. Coming from here, Egypt was full of Wonders. If you went more places, you’d find more Wonders. You could, eventually, become surfeited, and care no more for wonders. Or you could realize that your there is their here and that the world is bloody damned FULL of Wonders.
Then people would get annoyed because you looked so smug.

]]> Comment on Yeah, kinda like that… by Steve R. http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=397&cpage=1#comment-8956 Steve R. Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:21:20 +0000 http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=397#comment-8956 Two comments: 1) What if you're aloof to start with? 2) Over time, that impatience with the average convo fades as you're subsumed back into the everyday world and you lose touch with the exotic people you met overseas. Did I tell you about my trip to Ballard Fred Meyer yet? (I read Sex Lives of Cannibals a few months ago. Great book!) Two comments:

1) What if you’re aloof to start with?

2) Over time, that impatience with the average convo fades as you’re subsumed back into the everyday world and you lose touch with the exotic people you met overseas. Did I tell you about my trip to Ballard Fred Meyer yet?

(I read Sex Lives of Cannibals a few months ago. Great book!)

]]> Comment on Yeah, kinda like that… by Ed.W http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=397&cpage=1#comment-8954 Ed.W Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:44:05 +0000 http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=397#comment-8954 Except that you and kaddee are the people whose stories we've listened to. You've ruined us for everyone else! :-) Ed.W Except that you and kaddee are the people whose stories we’ve listened to. You’ve ruined us for everyone else! :-)

Ed.W

]]> Comment on FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE by josh http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=334&cpage=1#comment-8722 josh Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:19:32 +0000 http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack/?p=334#comment-8722 what the hell?haha what the hell?haha

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