City Class Final, List of Posts

Table of Contents for class posts plus tidbits that did not fit in elsewhere. Online class, UC Graham: From Istanbul to Cairo: The City in the Historical Novels of the Middle East.

Cairo Tidbits

The Taste of Egypt had a shirt that says, Welcome Thursday in Arabic. Took me a minute. Answer below.

BBC: The Private Lives of the Pyramid-builders, Tyldesley 2011.

The Brooke started in Cairo. TB: About, Our History. It is an animal rescue, so not all sunshine & rainbows.

Popular Science: Scientists recreate lost recipes for a 5,000-year-old Egyptian blue dye, The oldest synthetic pigment in human history comes in a variety of hues. Paul, Jun 2, 2025.

LEGO: Great Pyramid of Giza, The Brothers Brick: LEGO Architecture 21058 Great Pyramid of Giza: draw back the sands of time [Review]. Did I use this class as excuse to buy a LEGO set? It’s possible.

Cairo Posts

Fridays, Photography

[Bean Can, Food Photography] 11 April.

[Pyramids in Birmingham, The Concord Center, Architectural Photography] 18 April

[Messing With The Menus, Post-Processing Photography] 25 April, bean can photo used as base

Saturdays, Fiction & Non-Fiction

[The City In Five, Poetry Adjacent] 5 April, hieroglyph for city

[Cairo Travel, Lots of Links, Non-Fiction] 19 April

Sundays, Art, etc

[Your Name In Hieroglyphics, Art Links] 6 April

[Cairo Tiling, Math Art] 13 April

[Festival Cookies, Food] 20 April

Cairo Intro Links

YouTube: Downtown Cairo Egypt – 4K immersive morning walk. 12 April

Arch Daily: Cairo Architecture City Guide 18 April

Cairo Previous Posts

P. Djèlí Clark, A Dead Djinn in Cairo, The Haunting of Tram Car 015, & A Master of Djinn. [Quantum Truck II, Fiction] 21 Nov 2020 & [Trash Cans, Offered For Your Amusement] 11 June 2022

“The Cairo virtual tour looks interesting but that is 46 Miles / 75 KM.” [Walking Virtual Angkor Wat]

City Posts

Generalized city posts at start of class. Then class took a three-week break, so I switched back to generalized city posts. For the middle of the break, I switched to anniversary-related posts. More or less. #howthesausageismade.

Friday, Photography

[Pushing Buttons, Photography] 28 March, used city photo as base

[Transportation, Growing Up City, Non-Fiction Short] 10 May

[Scenes from a City Park, Photography] 30 May

Saturday, Fiction & Non Fiction

[Why Cities Have Tall Buildings, A Story] 29 March

[Knowing the Rules, Growing Up City, Non-Fiction Short] 26 April

[The Other Side of the Fishbowl, Non-Fiction Short] 24 May

Sunday, Art

[City Lettering, Graphic Art] 30 March

[The City Vertical, Graphic Art] 27 April

[Graffiti Logo, Graphic Art] 11 May

City Intro Links

The Guardian: The unexpected beauty of manhole covers around the world – in pictures 13 April

The Skyscraper Museum: Supertall! 27 April

Boundary Stones of the District of Columbia 10 May

Trust for Public Land: 2025 City Park Facts 30 May

City Previous Posts

So many for specific cities. Here’s a general city post.

“Gradually hero becomes becomes enchanted with big city values. Intellectual curiosity. Global viewpoints. Relentless energy. Meringue shops that are open late.” [Country Boy in The City, Plot for a Reverse Holiday Movie, Fiction] 24 December 2022

Istanbul Tidbits

Cathedral > Mosque > Museum > Mosque. “Turkey’s most famous author, Orhan Pamuk said the decision would take away the “pride” some Turks had in being a secular Muslim nation … There are millions of secular Turks like me who are crying against this but their voices are not heard,” he told the BBC.” BBC: Hagia Sophia: Turkey turns iconic Istanbul museum into mosque, Guerin 2020. Pamuk was the author of one of the books we read for class.

“”Blue is a popular color in Turkey. It impressed early French visitors enough for them to call it ‘the color of the Turks’…or turquoise.” Rick Steves: Istanbul, script.

LEGO Ideas: Istanbul, LI: Istanbul Landscape Architecture, TBB: Beautiful LEGO recreation of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia. None commercially available.

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Istanbul Posts

Friday, Photography

[Grub Gets a Glamour Shot, Photography] 6 June. Could equally be Egypt. The rest of the relevant Fridays were husband photography. Not sure what else I would have done for Istanbul photos.

Saturday, Fiction & Non Fiction

[Istanbul, Guest Photos] 17 May. Another not-going option, as with Alaska fiction [My Alaska-Flavored Adventure, Class Wrap-Up]

[Istanbul Travel, Lots of Links, Non-Fiction] 31 May

[City Class Final, List of Posts] 8 June, today

Sunday, Art

[Nazar Boncuğu, Glass Art] 18 May

[Making My Virtual Class More Touchable, Fabric Art] 25 May

[Making Miniatures, Graphic Art] 1 June

Istanbul Intro Links

Istanbul Modern 11 May

The Brothers Brick: Istanbul’s BlLI: Istanbul Landscape Architectureue Mosque looks magnificent in LEGO microscale 25 May

Big Think: It Works for the Turks: A Colour for Each Direction 1 June