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Tim Fernholz

Tim Fernholz, from Gilford, New Hampshire, graduated from Georgetown in 2008 with a double-major in Government and Theology and a minor in Arabic. He participated in the Berkley Center's Junior Year Abroad Network in the fall of 2006 from Cairo, Egypt.

Tim Fernholz on Trends in Religion and Politics in Egypt

October 10, 2006

Where do you begin to write about religion and society in a country where the two are so intertwined-and you're trying not to cover the same ground as your colleagues? For this first letter, I'll string together a few first impressions to develop in subsequent dispatches. The place to start is Cairo, erstwhile capital of the Arab world, a city tinged with religiosity, tempered with cynicism and fraught with identity crises.