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A dedication

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Sire, Among the many achievements which exemplify the reign of your august father, His Majesty Fouad I, the mapping of the Libyan Desert must surely take pride of place. This enormous expanse of sand, covering almost two thirds of the Kingdom, incorporated vast unexplored regions, maps of which showed little more than a series of […]

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Æsop revised

Saturday, May 8, 2010

I I was walking in the desert outside the city when I saw, coming towards me, a woman. She was alone, her face veiled against the whip of the sand. ‘Who are you?’ I asked, ‘and what are you doing out here on your own?’  ‘I am Truth,’ she replied. ‘I came to live in the […]

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Dr Ragab, I presume?

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Long-standing desert date with Robert Twigger. For The Oxford Times.

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