My name is Amunet, sometime of Thebes but originally, and yet again, of Avaris, the great Hykos principal city on the delta of the life-giving River Nile in the years of Khyan the Great's reign and the glorious afterward. My mistress and sister wife is truly gone now, and I feel that someone should tell the story of Kara and her mask and of the glory of the...
It's the weekend and we've decided to drive out away from the city. Its a lovely evening and the intense heat of the day is giving way as the shadows lengthen. But it's still warm enough to want to get naked together under the Egyptian sky! We find a lovely spot at the edge of some water away from prying eyes. We're surrounded by bushes and have a view acro...
Jovita and Hanna strolled through the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the exhibit on Ancient Egypt. One the way there, Jovita expressed her excitement to Hanna. "Today, we're going to see the history of your ancestors." Hanna gently disagreed, "My ancestors are Jewish, not Egyptian. The Met doesn't bother showing Jewish culture, because the Jews never establi...
Evening hung quietly over the Croft manor, Lara's cup of coffee steamed gently in the cool air of the open-windowed study. As a global traveler, it was very rare that she ever stuck to a consistent schedule of sleep. It was still several hours before she wanted to be in bed but the jet lag was hanging just as quietly but oppressively over her. She could use...
"Mona, come to bed, I just put our son Jacob to sleep, come on," says my husband Alain Dewar, speaking from the bedroom of our townhouse located in the East End of Toronto. I'm sitting on the couch, wearing an old hooded sweatshirt that Alain loaned me. He's had it since his days as a University of Toronto student. It's way too big for me. Underneath it, I'm...
I had never noticed the shop before, and I don't know why I went in. It was called 'Heart's Desire'. As I entered, the woman behind the counter said "The dresses are over there." I was a man in ordinary clothes. Why would she say that? "Just browsing," I said, and looked everywhere but at the rack of dresses. There was really nothing I wanted. There were...
("Coffin Candy" is yet another true episode in the sexual story of my life. I am purging my soul. Telling of my past "sins" is part of my repentance.) My girlfriends and I attended some wild and crazy parties during our college days. The various fraternities usually put on the best bashes, with plenty of free booze and kinky sex. But the sex eventually got...
Greek Gods ------- Zeus - King of the Greek gods Hera - Queen of the Greek gods, sister, and wife of Zeus Hades - god of the underworld, brother of Zeus Poseidon - god of the sea, brother of Zeus Demeter - goddess of harvest and fertility of the earth, sister of Zeus Aphrodite - Daughter of Zeus and Dione, Goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality Artem...
Apparently, all Arabs are Muslim, that's what some of my friends and classmates seem to believe. That's news to me, because the Coptic Christian community is very much alive in places like Syria, Egypt and Lebanon, even though we're constantly hounded by Islamists. My name is Marianne Shafik and I'm the daughter of Egyptian immigrants living in Ottawa, Ontar...
Greek Gods ------- Zeus - King of the Greek gods. Hera - Queen of the Greek gods, sister, and wife of Zeus. Hades - god of the underworld, brother of Zeus. Poseidon - god of the sea, brother of Zeus. Demeter - goddess of harvest and fertility of the earth, sister of Zeus. Aphrodite - Daughter of Zeus and Dione, Goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality....