{"id":3990,"date":"2008-12-18T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toewstravels.com\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2020-06-10T14:39:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T18:39:11","slug":"conclusion-of-the-middle-east-studies-program-mesp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toewstravels.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/18\/conclusion-of-the-middle-east-studies-program-mesp\/","title":{"rendered":"conclusion of the middle east studies program (mesp)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4092\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4092\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4092\" src=\"http:\/\/toewstravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/12E539FB-C562-4DD2-B7CA-376E7FBF3848.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toewstravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/12E539FB-C562-4DD2-B7CA-376E7FBF3848.jpeg 604w, https:\/\/toewstravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/12E539FB-C562-4DD2-B7CA-376E7FBF3848-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">my flat brothers and our building doormen, cairo, egypt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>after our month of traveling around the middle east, we returned to cairo for two weeks to write a bunch of papers and say good bye to our friends and the streets of cairo. we went on a retreat weekend to a coptic monastery\/retreat center north of cairo called anafora. mesp was amazing. wonderful friends were made, a ton of fun was had, and basically my wordview was fundamentally altered. it was a profoundly formative semester for me.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4098\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4098\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4098\" src=\"http:\/\/toewstravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/13E1300B-2859-4620-9A86-F51FADD592D8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toewstravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/13E1300B-2859-4620-9A86-F51FADD592D8.jpeg 604w, https:\/\/toewstravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/13E1300B-2859-4620-9A86-F51FADD592D8-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">anafora coptic retreat center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4091\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4091\" src=\"http:\/\/toewstravels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BA443E9F-FD06-4E30-A700-AABEACCAE55E.jpeg\" 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