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  • St. Paul’s Chapel and Cemetary next to the World Trade Center Site

    Last Thursday my wife and I went downtown to the National September 11 Memorial site. To get to it, we had to walk past St. Paul’s Chapel and Cemetery and my wife was interested in having a look around, so we went in.  I’ve been there a few times before, but it was her first…

  • 5 Napkin Burger at 14th and 3rd Ave

    I don’t remember exactly when the place opened, but for the past few months the 5 Napkin Burger restaurant has been full of people almost every time I’ve gone by. The smells of cooking hamburgers wafting out of the restaurant onto 14th Street made it hard to walk by without getting hungry. So, it wasn’t…

  • YougoHell

    Yesterday (Tuesday, December 12th), I was surprised to see this man standing on the corner of 137th Street and Hamilton Place in Harlem, Manhattan, just down the hill from the City College of New York CUNY and P.S. 325, a public elementary school. When I walked up to the corner, a man standing by the…

  • Islamism and “The Yacoubian Building”

    The following is a short essay I wrote about The Yacoubian Building for an undergraduate history course. In Alaa al Aswany’s book, The Yacoubian Building, Islamism and Islamists are primarily presented through the point of view of the character Taha El Shazli, the son of a doorman who lives on the roof of the Yacoubian…

  • Islamist Political Thought in Egypt: al-Banna to Faraj

    The following is a short essay I wrote for an undergraduate college class on the history of Islamist political thought: On June 30th, 2012, Mohammed Mursi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood founded by Hasan al-Banna in 1928, assumed office as the 5th president of Egypt.  In modern politics, the Muslim Brotherhood holds the highest…

  • Coney Island and Night of Horrors (Weekend before Sandy)

    This post is long delayed. I meant to write it up and publish it on Monday, October 29th, but that night was the night Sandy flooded Lower Manhattan and caused our power to go out. By the time we got our electricity and internet back, I was scrambling to catch up on papers that needed…

  • Ripped Books

    I’d like to take some time later to write a long post about my experiences over the past week in Lower Manhattan in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, but I want to mention something I saw today that made me realize that some things in New York City never change. When I was on my…

  • The “Muslim” Halloween Costume

    Somewhere around Sheepshead Bay, a guy and his friends got on.  The guy was wearing traditional Arab Muslim clothing.  Or at least, sort of.  He had the kufi (?, long shirt), brimless cap, cotton pants and the sandals, but he wasn’t wearing them quite right.  The cap was way too small for him and the…

  • NYC BMW Has Hood Crushed By Construction Backhoe

    After a fine dinner at Pinche Taqueria, my wife and I were walking down Bleeker Street (between Lafayette and Bowery) and, well… this: I had to stop to make sure I was seeing it right, and sure enough, the hood of the car is being smashed in by the backhoe. I suppose seeing me standing…

  • Excuse Me. Have you seen these droids?

    The missus and I have been so busy over the last few weeks that it seems like we’ve hardly had a moment to just sit down and stare relax.  I think about it sometimes.  Just going out to the park, sitting down and watching people walk by, watching the squirrels, and enjoying the sights and…