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'I Thought That Death Was Imminent' Jan. 13, 2025
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
*Jean Paul is a pseudonym. All names have been changed to protect those identified in this story. I ... Read More
Anti-Imperialists Ignore Russia Using Africans as Cannon Fodder Jun. 13, 2024
Vladimir Putin doesn't have enough Russians to maintain the full fury of his barbaric assault on Ukr... Read More
Will Africa Save America? Jan. 15, 2024
A century ago, the Catholic intellectual Hilaire Belloc wrote, "Europe is the faith." Today conserva... Read More
Africa Must Heal Itself -- And Not Rely on America Dec. 22, 2022
There may be better ways to disrespect African leaders than President Joe Biden's U.S.-Africa Leader... Read More
Small Events Yield Big Memories of Morocco Dec. 18, 2022
By Glenda Winders During our recent visit to Morocco my husband and I saw elegant palaces, huge mosq... Read More
One Last Day in Casablanca Dec. 11, 2022
By Glenda Winders When my husband and I tell our friends that we visited Casablanca during our recen... Read More
A Visit to Marvelous, Mysterious Marrakech Dec. 10, 2022
By Glenda Winders During our recent visit to Morocco my husband and I learned that every city has a ... Read More
Fes or Fez, the Colors Remain the Same Dec. 04, 2022
By Glenda Winders Vast parts of Morocco are covered in the sand of the Sahara and the rocks and foli... Read More
Music, Flavors and Sounds Define Rabat Dec. 03, 2022
By Glenda Winders "Variety" is the word that jumps to mind when I look back on our recent visit to M... Read More
Reflections on 35 Years of Travel Writing Oct. 15, 2022
By Fyllis Hockman When my 15-year-old granddaughter, Talya, asked me what my favorite destination wa... Read More
Outstanding Tour Company Makes an Egyptian Trip Unforgettable Aug. 21, 2022
By Fyllis Hockman Traveling through Egypt on Overseas Adventure Travel's (OAT) Ancient Egypt and th... Read More
Egypt: 6,000 Years of History Come Alive Aug. 20, 2022
By Fyllis Hockman I'm in Cairo, Egypt, on a hotel balcony overlooking the Nile River, a fantasyland ... Read More
Dream Trips: African Safaris in Kenya and Zambia Dec. 12, 2020
By Candyce H. Stapen All of us need to dream now, and planning a bucket-list trip creates the joy o... Read More
Art Helps Tell Egypt's Long Story Oct. 18, 2020
By Glenda Winders When my husband and I decided to visit Egypt he was interested in the country's hi... Read More
More Than a Dam Waits in Aswan Sep. 20, 2020
By Glenda Winders All I knew about Aswan before I visited Egypt was that it had a dam, and that much... Read More
The Ancient World Is Alive in Luxor Sep. 19, 2020
By Glenda Winders Luxor, Egypt, bills itself as the world's greatest open-air museum, and everything... Read More
Port-a-Path Sep. 05, 2020
"At the port-a-potty, go south through the sage brush." That should've been a sign that this hike wa... Read More
Watch Life Go by on the Nile River in Egypt Aug. 23, 2020
By Glenda Winders Historians are divided as to whether Cleopatra really sailed on a barge on the Nil... Read More
For a Cultural Awakening, Come to Cairo Aug. 22, 2020
By Glenda Winders Cairo takes the "city of contrasts" concept to a whole new level, which my husband... Read More
Another African Tragedy Mar. 04, 2020
Here are a few headlines about an African tragedy: "Africa's Worst Locust Plague in Decades Threaten... Read More
