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Entries by Karin Badt from 12/2008

Let the Right One In: New Vampire Film with a "Beat"

| Posted 12.03.2008
Read More: How to Work With Child Actors, Swedish Film, Vampires, Let the Right One In, Tomas Alfredson, Bullying, Violence in Schools, Filmcraft, News

Several people excitedly told me I had to go see Tomas Alfredson's new film, Let the Right One In, a Swedish film which is also currently playing at the Angelika in New York.

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Christmas in Cairo: A 48 Hour Story

| Posted 12.26.2008
Read More: Women Travelers, Egypt, Giza Pyramids, Travel, Children's Cancer, Cairo, Great Sphinx, Christmas, Inspiration, Loss of Children, News

Surprisingly, neither of the two taxi drivers I asked to take me to the pyramids understood my destination -- despite the fact that I would think these large stone edifices are a mainstay of Cairo tourism.

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Sex With Egyptian Women (According to "Mike")

| Posted 12.30.2008
Read More: Female Clitorectomy, Driver in Luxor, Female Circumcision, Egyptian Women, Female Genital Mutilation, News

Official Egyptian statistics say 97 percent of women aged 15 to 49, Christians and Muslims alike, have undergone what the UN calls female genital mutilation, or FGM.

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Women in Egypt: Part Two

| Posted 12.31.2008
Read More: Food in Egypt, Egyptian Women, Village Life, Luxor, News

I could not help speculating that each of these women--even the happily married young girl--had been mutilated, but still the sense of family caring was enticingly strong.

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