As things stand, the field of psychiatry offers us no precise definition for such cases of fleeting madness as those experienced by Mohammed Shatta, though literature has preserved an account of the phenomenon from the perspective of one of its more…
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang was a humor magazine launched in 1919 by Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett, a WWI veteran from Minnesota. Named for the artillery shells he'd heard in…
Spent a day walking around Manshiyat Naser, a neighborhood on the edge of Cairo. It's home to the Zabbaleen — around 60,000 Coptic Christians who've been collecting and recycling the city's trash for generations.…