I recently received this request from a university student who wrote to say that she was writing a paper on In An Antique Land: ‘It would mean a lot to me if you can send me a photo of you in the filed or as a  young anthropologist; i was looking but, didn’t find the right Image of you.’

Unfortunately I have very few pictures of myself that date back to my stay in the villages that are called ‘Lataifa’ and ‘Nashawy’ in In An Antique Land: most of them have been misplaced in the course of my travels. One of the very few that I still have is  posted below: