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Our guide (Araby) walked with me to the Aswan square for tea and shisha late one evening. I felt accepted walking among the locals, almost unnoticed; sitting at a cafe on the main square. Ramadan had just finished, and everyone is out. Families, kids, adults. Vibrant life – not the Draconian Islamist lifestyle we often envision for the Middle-East. We talked politics and religion till late, played chess on the Nile and educated an American in Egypt. A genuine cultural experience.

 

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