About

HIDDEN CITIES is a blog of stories from the Middle East written by Frederick Deknatel, a 2008-2009 Fulbright Fellow in Syria. Currently based in Cairo New York Oxford, England, where I’m studying for an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at St Antony’s College.

A freelance journalist and writer, I’ve written for The Nation, the Los Angeles Review of BooksThe National, the Christian Science Monitor, Architectural Record, the Architect’s Newspaper, GlobalPost, Al Jazeera English, Daily News Egypt, the Huffington Post, the Faster Times, Guernica, and elsewhere online and in print. I wrote the Historical Travel section for the Faster Times.

Contact me at frederickdeknatel at gmail dot com. Or visit frederickdeknatel.com.

3 thoughts on “About

  1. Freddy, your blog is a wealth of Info, and good inspiration and thinking as headed, again, to egypt, jordan and new …for me..Syria.

    Thank you. Keep up good work. Robin

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