Nov 3, 2020 | Current News
Upper Egypt or the Sa’id lies in the Southern part of the country. The town of Assuit and the village of Beni Harem cling along the Nile in Upper Egypt, as mentioned in my book Roots & Branches. In Upper Egypt, the Nile valley is very narrow. Life exists...
Oct 8, 2020 | Current News
Another character in Roots and Branches and Making the Cut My mother: By 1935, Hitler had closed the progressive women’s schools, preventing women from entering university. Gretchen Steinbach left her home in Hamburg, Germany, in 1935 and went to England as a nanny...
Sep 23, 2020 | Current News
Characters in “Roots & Branches” and “Making the Cut” Like in fairy tales, Abdel Aziz’s stepmother was a sinful woman. When she banished him at age 6 from the village, Beni Harem in Upper Egypt and sold him into servitude in Cairo, her expectation was...
Sep 17, 2020 | Current News
In this series I’ll introduce the main characters of the hugely popular podcast “Making the Cut” makingthecutpodcast.com. These characters come to life in my book Roots & Branches soon to be available on Amazon. Abdel Aziz was born in 1905 in an...