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Saving My Book From the Evil Eye
Apotropaic talismans to ward off the evil eye. Photo by Natalia Suit When the final galleys came back from the printers, my production manager Marvin discovered two significant typos. They aren’t in...
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Connected in Cairo Has Shipped
Just received word–via Facebook–that the first run of Connected in Cairo arrived at the warehouse yesterday. My editor e-mailed to say she’d sent the first copy to me by express mail, so I should get...
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Preview Connected in Cairo via Google Books
A Google Books preview of Connected in Cairo is now available on the Indiana University web page for the book. You can see all the front matter, including the entire new preface tying the book’s...
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IUP Offer E-Book Edition of Connected in Cairo
IUP has released an e-book of Connected in Cairo I like physical books. I like underlining significant passages, making check marks in the margins of things relevant to me, and writing margin notes...
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Connected in Cairo: 30 Percent Off!
You can buy Connected in Cairo through Indiana University Press’s web site and save 30% beginning next week (Aug. 8th) and through the rest of the year. That means you can get the paperback for a mere...
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Out of Stock – Printing More Copies
I haven’t posted anything for twelve days, not because there isn’t a lot to write about in Egypt these days but because I’ve been traveling with only minimal Internet availability. On Wednesday I...
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New Review of Connected in Cairo in Middle East Journal
One of the two books that inspired me to stop just drawing on observations of Cairo for class lecture examples and actually begin research and writing was Farha Ghannam’s Remaking the Modern: Space,...
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New Review of Connected in Cairo by Joel Gordon
It’s a very teachable book, writes Joel Gordon, but he’d like to see more of the middle classes who challenge elite assumptions. There’s a new review of Connected in Cairo written by Joel Gordon in the...
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Highlighting Connected In Cairo
Web 2.0 offers all manner of interesting ways of exploring texts. A few days ago, I went to my Amazon author page to update my biographical note–six months late–and was distracted by a feature called...
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New Review of Connected In Cairo
I knew I was going to be a writer long before I knew I what kind of stuff I was going to write. In spite of a couple of plays that got produced, two lousy novels, a handful of even lousier short...
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