I'm in Marseille for the Informal Meeting of Arab Cultural Spaces. It signals exactly two years on the job at CIC because the last one I went to was my very first day of work, which is an utterly bizarre situation as I am still totally ersatz at first glance to anyone glimpsing me in this world. Let alone then. Naturally it is an occasion to ( Read more... )

I was queueing at TEData to pay for my internet - actually the first queue I've ever seen in Egypt, so my inner Brit was placated - but it was not to be. This woman pushed in front of me and the boy in front of me. I wouldn't normally do anything but I'd waited a long time and I was in a hurry to get to a meeting - so I tapped her on the shoulder ( Read more... )