A couple of years ago, David Lazar asked if I might like to submit an essay for a future issue of Hotel Amerika, and I proposed an essay on waiting. Waiting for documents, waiting in refugee camps, and the peculiar qualities of suspended life, lived waiting for a future that may not arrive.
Sadly, I made him wait for it! Happily, though, the essay is in the new issue of Hotel Amerika. It's about Cairo, invisibility, exile, and bureaucracy.