Sekhmet

Outside the Sekhmet shrine at Karnak. I had a very profound sense of being in the presense of a powerful almost electrifying deity in this tiny shrine.

A Coptic icon of the Archangel Michael from the Church of St Mary, Haret Zuwaila, Cairo

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At the cobbler's in Cairo

With Mark Booth, Robert's editor at CENTURY, at the Pyramids

The spice stall in a Cairo market

A mound of "saffron" which is in fact dried Marigold petals, in the market.