“Government neglect and endemic poverty means that, aside from the constant hassle tourists must suffer from the legion of touts, many of the city’s young men become prostitutes as the only hope of earning a living. In the 1990s, Luxor… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Government neglect and endemic poverty means that, aside from the constant hassle tourists must suffer from the legion of touts, many of the city’s young men become prostitutes as the only hope of earning a living. In the 1990s, Luxor… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“But if Nasser's gift to the Egyptians was their sense of pride, Mubarak's curse is to have created a cultural climate where the only… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“However, since the Syrian regime is even less transparent than the NGOs, we have no way of knowing that, either.” — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“After the attack, it was again the image of the country, rather than the well-being of those who had been caught up in the… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Because Islam is so tightly bound up with Acehnese exceptionalism, it has since the introduction of Islamic law become the territory’s version of political… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“After all, there is in more stable, developed countries like the United States and Britain a quantifiably more vicious culture of child abuse. A… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“After that fateful day of July 23, 1952, the "Paris Along the Nile," as Cairo was lovingly renamed by the foreigners who flocked to… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Mansour earned the nickname "Al-Turbiny," from the air-conditioned express trains linking Cairo with Egypt's second city Alexandria, whose roofs were the favored location for… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“The situation is complicated, though, in a country like Tunisia, where sudden and dramatic change in favor of Western-style democracy at this juncture does… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Nothing gives your average bored Sunni bigot surfing the web more instant gratification than zooming in on sigeh to condemn the Shia as debauched… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“despite having a thriving gay prostitution scene, Damascus is unlike just about every other Middle Eastern city I have visited in not having any… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“The Arab Spring has been a dismal failure. All indications are that what comes next will be significantly worse than what existed before, in… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“An investigative report by the BBC in July 2007 found that thousands of young Egyptian men try to enter Europe illegally every year. Sometimes… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
