The Foreign Service Journal, September 2014

86 SEPTEMBER 2014 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL LOCAL LENS BY DEBRA BLOME n CAIRO, EGYPT Please submit your favorite, recent photograph to be featured in Local Lens. Images must be high resolution (at least 300 dpi at 8 x 10”) and must not be in print elsewhere. Please submit a short description of the scene/ event, as well as your name, brief biodata and the type of camera used, to locallens@ afsa.org . T he highways surrounding Cairo teem with cars and cargo at all hours of the day and night. The camels in the back of this pick-up truck seem unfazed by the roar of the surrounding traffic. I took this photograph in 2009 on Cairo’s Ring Road, while driving back to the city after a trip to Giza Plateau to see the pyramids. n Debra Blome is an eligible family member who is currently in Washing- ton, D.C., where she is the AFSA News editor. She and her FSO husband and family lived in Cairo from 2008 to 2012 and, before that, were posted to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Tunisia and Kuwait. She took this photo with a Nikon Coolpix P80 27-486mm 18x optical zoom-Nikkor lens.