Tag
The last thing anyone would expect to find in one of the most isolated outposts of humanity is a famous man. Meeting “Mr. Socks” – or “Dr Socks” as he prefers to be called – at the edge of a…
Continue reading
In brackish Arabic laced with Farsi and Hindi, Captain Abdul-Fatah al-Shehi orders a young deckhand to steer his boat along a sharp bend in the coastline. As the wooden dhow veers from the open water into a rocky inlet, al-Shehi…
Continue reading
Many years ago, I came across an old image in a book. It was a 19th-century, black-and-white photograph of what appeared to be a cluster of Egyptian-style pyramids located somewhere in Sudan. The haunting photo showed a group of relatively…
Continue reading
