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31st March 2014 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

ON MOTHERS

I can’t fall into the sentimentality of Mother’s Day, and envy those who can.…

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19th March 2014 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

LOVE III

Forget how the world dims your sight And breaks your back. Forget the pining of…

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15th March 2014 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

LOVE

Love creeps in through…

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23rd February 2014 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

GOING DOWN

A friend has just bought a pair of these cute panties to taunt her boyfriend…

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20th February 2014 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

SADAAM AND BUBBLES

Someone has just given me a copy of Field Marshall el-Sissi’s identity card, and in…

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20th February 2014 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

SUNGLASSES AND DICTATORS

I used to go to a spa in Amsterdam where it was common for men…

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15th February 2014 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

MRS EL-SISSI

I understand Field Marshall el-Sissi has a wife. I don’t know anyone who has met…

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14th February 2014 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

OPEN SCREEN – EL GAMALAYA

The boys bunch in the dark, shift on threaded palm and stones,a cigarette passes from…

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1st February 2014 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

FALLING ONTO ALEXANDRIA

I hover above the city, wingless, every bone as thin as string, taut as an…

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13th January 2014 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

DOWN THE BARREL OF A GUN

These guys hang out round the corner from me, along with the barbed wire, humvees…

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13th January 2014 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

REFLECTION

Suddenly, her face in glass, an old moon rising,tide tired.Her eyes, like a child that…

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5th January 2014 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

SNOW IN CAIRO

All that is ugly shivers, unprepared for beauty.Rubbish mounds, frozen cats, broken chairs swell to…

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3rd January 2014 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

IN El FOUAD STREET

Is it you I pass in a cafe in El Fouad street,raising a cup to your…

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3rd December 2013 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

GRAFFITI

Come when the street is silent and there is no witness. Park your vans. Raise…

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24th November 2013 / Christine Aziz / Uncategorised

MOHAMED MAHMOUD STREET

She walks across the ticket hall draped in black, clutching a framed photograph Llke a…

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