Dearest Iqbal-

I hope you passed a pleasant Thanksgiving in Tanzania/Zanzibar. It must be strange recognizing that a holiday is passing but not living in a nation where it is celebrated. You must by hyperaware of the rituals and traditions going on far away; rituals and traditions which culturally you should be a part of. Instead you are apart. As you sit down to dinner in Zanzibar, and the people around you act as if it's an ordinary day (which of course it is), can you imagine what they should be doing? What they might give thanks for?

Robert de Saint-Loup