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Honestly, I found the Cavafy museum a little poor, but I did spend a marvelous afternoon wandering around the back streets of Alexandria trying to find it:
Nicholas Danforth
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- From the moment a Russian nuclear launch is detected, everyone on the east coast will have 22 minutes to tweet about why this proves they were right
- The most shocking thing about discovering my wife’s a CIA agent is that I didn’t even know I was married
- Even if you can convince people you accidentally shot a journalist, its a lot harder to convince them you accidentally attacked their funeralThe closest video of the #Israeli police suppressing the funeral procession of Shireen Abu Aqleh as the coffin was leaving the French hospital towards the cemetery
00:00 - We've officially reached the 'friends from Istanbul texting to make sure I'm okay' stage
- When you give the guy at the bus station your drivers license and end up with a ticket for Mr. Organ Donor...
- Intentionally or not, today Trump will put America's imprimatur on the final dismantling of Turkish democracy.
- Update: I've heard more serious discussion of kicking Turkey out of NATO in the last 10 minutes than I have in the last decade
- Bernard Lewis on the true Clash of Civilizations: "One can, in a sense, divide the civilizations of this planet into three zones: the sweet-milk zone, the sour milk zone, and the no-milk zone."
- A schematic map of the Eastern Mediterranean. I just wish i had one of those tiny airplane bottles for Cyprus.
