النمور من الشمال
We’re working on a hard-hitting piece with a Boursa angle but we thought we should share some observations and information about the old neighborhood, seeing as the original raison d’etre for this blog was to chronicle its happenings.
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Who knew the US government had a sewing book?
“This was a campaign for social behavioral change,” he said. “I would ask people, ‘What do you do when you’re frustrated?’ And they would say, ‘I march.’ ”
His reply became almost standard, he said: “If the people who marched actually voted, we wouldn’t have to march in the first place.”
That’s an NYT article from a couple days ago, about Obama’s hopes to win Arizona by galvanizing the Latino vote next year. The situation for Latinos in Arizona and liberals and leftists in Egypt is quite different. But…
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Having returned, briefly, from the land of the open-throated alifs (Hala Wallah at your boy!), we’ve got several updates coming your way in the coming day or days. Today we’ll be covering some fashion happening around town.
Juelz
Although TBE’s dream of opening a hamburger joint in Cairo is currently on sabbatical, we’re happy to announce that the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in the tonier districts of Zamalek and beyond. It is with great pleasure that we announce the founding of Amoura Designs, the brainchild of a most stylish friend of TBE, which is currently producing gorgeous jewelry like that which graces the top of this post. Check the Facebook page for ordering information and more work samples.
Filed under Advertising, Downtown, Downtown Personages, Fashion, The Boursa
Limited engagement. One weekend only. You can call me uncle.
Filed under Downtown Personages, Hip Hop, Posterity, The Boursa
In these dark days, (Muhammad) Mazloom Street is living up to its name. A series of unfortunate and strange events have plagued the street, making locals wonder whether the street is cursed, writes our correspondent.
Filed under Cairo Gems, Downtown, Downtown Personages
As promised yesterday, we’re back with some important Downtown news.
WILL SHOP 4 FOOD.
Filed under Advertising, Downtown, Downtown Personages, Food, Journalism
Tilting at Straw Men; or, Upsetting the Apple Cart Before the Horse
As others who are much more knowledgeable about Arabic literature than us have already pointed out, a big chunk of the current issue of literary journal Public Spaces is devoted to young Egyptian writers. One thing we pondered while reading the lead article, which is the only content available online, is the interest in placing writers into distinct “generations” (not least by writers themselves, it seems) and the perceived need to frame the discussion politically. Not having the vocabularial fortitude to read Arabic literature in its native language, we’re ill-suited to analyze the issue (or even moreso than we usually are, as it were). But in the spirit of Einstein, we’ll do so anyway, if only as a means of taking a couple of our hobbyhorses for a stroll around the corral, and in hopes of gaining a larger audience for the journal and its featured authors in the days and years to come.
Filed under Academics, Books, Downtown, Downtown Personages, Hip Hop, Politics, Translations
“…These streets will make you feel brand new/ Fawanees will inspire you…” -Empire State of Mind (Cairo Ramadan remix)
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TBE interrupts its previously scheduled vacation to bring you the following updates:
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THE BOURSA EXCHANGE 
