One thing I really enjoy here is the ability to read all of my favorite time-wasting blogs like GoFugYourself. However, I don’t think my friends at that blog do enough smackdowns where my arch-nemesis Donna Karan is concerned. Oh, sure, they made fun of one of her dresses, but the key crimes that this woman […]
According to the Fiqh Council of North America, the first night of Ramadan is tonight, so the first day of fasting is tomorrow.
Hamou doubted this, since one of his Moroccan friends in NYC told him it was going to start on Sunday. He also wanted me to find out if Saudi Arabia had started their […]
Time for some input from my audience - I’m trying to decide what to pursue next.
The next book up for review is Behind the Courtyard Door : The Daily Life of Tribeswomen in Northern Morocco, by Ursula Kingsmill Hart.
The author lived in Morocco as a child, but she wasn’t able to visit the more remote parts of the country until she married anthropologist David Montgomery Hart - and then she […]
I just realized how pompous I sounded in the post before last - what I should have said was “The book is so packed with information, no one could possibly absorb it all in just one reading.”
