CU Abroad – Maurice Chammah

As a student in a country with a bustling tourism industry like Egypt, you inevitably reach a point in between the tourist and the expatriate resident. You’re haggled by shop owners, but you already know the tricks they use to get you to their shop. You’ve ridden the metro and the microbus, but still get [...]

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A “Mawlid” (related to the Arabic word for birth) is a festival that occurs several times a year in Cairo to celebrate the birthday of important historical figures in Islam, as well as Sufi saints. Today thousands of Egyptians, many foreign Muslims, and a few tourists filled the streets of Islamic Cairo for the birthday [...]

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