The Embrace: Forty Days in the Desert

In February 2009, two years before the massive demonstrations to oust president Hosni Mubarek, a commercial fisherman from Canada went to Egypt on a mission. Alone and uninvited, Bruce Benson spent 40 days picking up trash at the Great Pyramids of Giza on the edge of the Sahara desert. At times detained by police, and questioned as to his motives by many, he battled his own doubts to demonstrate his spiritual philosophy he calls 'the embrace.' This is his journal.