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My screeching alarm clock coincides perfectly with the call to prayer from a nearby mosque. It’s before dawn and I’m both disoriented and angry. Where am I again? Oh yeah. Cairo. Why am I awake so early? Oh yeah. Emil. I’ve just worked two weeks straight and, regardless of the opinions of the muezzin or Continue reading Sunday in the Valley of Salts  Wadi Natron is the center of Coptic Monasticism in Egypt and one of, if not the, earliest homes to Christianity. The name means "Valley of Natron" or "Valley of the minerals." Natron salts were used for the preparation of mummies during the pharaonic period. Christianity was brought to the valley by St. Mark during Continue reading Images from Wadi Natron, Egypt |
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