Pandora was neutered today, and is now sitting around in a semi-drugged haze of universal resentment ( Read more... )

The 'what to pay your cleaner here' argument rages on on CS. The market rate for a cleaner here is 50LE. Someone on CS recently recommended a cleaner who charges 100LE, someone else admitted to only paying 35LE, and all hell broke loose. The arguments ranged from the sub-classist 'don't hire what you can't afford' through to the neoliberal 'the ( Read more... )

In the taxi on the way to Ardellewa today, I was telling Maha about my newfound fascination for Cairo Scholars, with its bleeding hearts and unacknowledged privilege and fascinating insight into the most trivial concerns of People Like Me. And she admitted to being similarly addicted, and we giggled about the Mexican Restaurant Morality drama and ( Read more... )

It is weird when my two main sources of news are BBC online news - which, no matter how virtuous I feel, I cannot be fucked to read nearly as thoroughly as I would a newspaper - and Cairo Scholars.

CS is an email group for expats and Cairene students, and it's mostly ads for language exchanges, accommodation, visa info, NGO job placements, etc. But ( Read more... )