The Sinai, often described as restive and lawless, is actually not lawless at all. The region is ruled by two kinds of law - Egyptian government law and Bedouin tribal law. In this sparsely populated triangle of land, Egyptians are…
Connect the Cultures’ silent partner, an American, traveled to the Arabian Gulf country of Qatar on business this spring, just six weeks before the day that Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, the UAE and Bahrain made the shocking announcement that they were…
Egyptians are one of the oldest cultures in the world, so in Egypt you can find some meals and drinks that have existed for thousands of years. One of my favorite drinks in the world is the sugarcane juice in…
One of the young Bedouin women I’d met sitting in a circle around a fire the other day invited me back to her arisha for more tea. Her house is in a recess amongst the other Bedouin homes and not…
On April 6, 2016, Muslim Iraqi refugee Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a student the University of California, Berkeley and a Huffington Post blogger, was thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight at Los Angeles International Airport for speaking his native language of Arabic.…
Several weeks into my three-month journey through the Middle East I decided to split my #CTCmideast2017 trip into Part 1 and Part 2. Part 1 lasted six weeks to the day. You can read a synopsis of the first month…
On Tuesday, March 28, 2017, I am going to be one of the first people in the world to fly from the Middle East to the United States under the new Middle Eastern laptop travel ban. This is the second…
One month ago today I landed in Cairo to begin my three-month journey through Egypt, Jordan and Israel for the purpose of sharing the cultures of the Middle East with the rest of the world. This is a synopsis of…
Late on a Friday morning, as I strolled amongst the goats and chickens running about on a sandy back road in the Asalah district of Dahab, Egypt, a Bedouin woman, covered in a swirl of a colorful clothing and a…
Most aspects of Bedouin life in Sinai, Egypt are very different from the developed world. However, I have learned, education is not so different, aside from one important area - the education of Bedouin girls in the Sinai. In the following video,…