Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta was a great 14th-Century traveler: a discoverer and a marveller filled with promiscuous curiosity, as travelers should be. This is not a site about him so much as his spirit. Photographs of the Middle East and Africa by Christopher and friends. (c) Christopher Dickey

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Years ago, Hosni Mubarak used to be called La Vache Qui Rit. Nobody's laughing now. But this fading advertisement seemed oddly symbolic.

Posted by Christopher Dickey at 1:46 AM
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