Nicola Zawadi Cross Films

Photo: Adel making tea for me Siwi style in his shop DUNE which is often filled with interesting people, local and foreign. The first...

With all the thought I put into figuring out Siwa and Siwis, mainly men of course as women are at home, it never occurred to me that...

Siwa is getting a facelift. All the hickledy-pickledy building fronts around the central souq are being demolished. A uniform frontage of...

Yoga is experiential. No amount of theory can replace practice, in the same way that no combination of words can adequately convey my...

I consider how a tomb that no one knows about at the base of a 13th Century mud fortress links to the self-determination of the men with...

Not many people know it but, I can be very shy. Coming from the country where the term ‘rastitute’ might even have been coined by Rough...

Generally, not many women walk through the streets of Siwa. I’m still trying to discern who’s who. Non-Egyptian foreigners are easier to...

Photo by: Katrina Wild Yesterday, my friend baked a lemon cake. I still think there wasn’t enough lemon in it but, I lost that argument...

I set off. The first few minutes are ok. Then, my arms hurt, my arms ache. No, it’s pain! I don’t have to do this. Why am I doing this? I...

In the past I’ve said to people, “You don’t do the work you need to do and perfect it and then find a partner”. Part of the work is...

05:16. Today, I’m going to visit some friends in their home, for the first time. They’ve alerted me and now … I’m worried … their house...

Sometimes things just hurt. They hurt if you walk into them, … around them, … push them down to where they just become a lump in the pit...

I’ve started practicing kundalini meditation again. I’m not back on track but I’ve remembered how it feels. I’m remembering how it stills...

Lost on facebook I just read an advertisement for a young Trini man’s Flores Shaun talk, “The Straightjacket of Masculinity” and it...

These dynamic Egyptian women were an uplifting end to a day that got off to a wobbly start. I should have known the day would get...

Temple of Amun, Siwa. Siwa has always been a magnet to people and slowly, slowly I’m putting the pieces together through the stories...

It is often steeped and stewed in colonialism (which of course is inextricable from patriarchy). Up until last year I didn’t really...

Here in Siwa, men greet men with a shake of the hand. They don’t offer their hand to a woman unless she puts her hand out first. That...

FOR MY LAZY FRIENDS, THE FIRST 2 PARAGRAPHS CAN BE READ IN ISOLATION, kinda..... just for you! Secrets. Mystery. Oracle. Magic. Words...

I'm always concerned that in posts the complexity of life is misrepresented and that only the best bits are made public. I can begin to...