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exactly...so much including the delicious food is similiar.
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Kabu
on August 28, 2013 at 2:43 PM
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they are...they roll them out wherever they are on friday for the prayer around 12 or 1pm...everything comes to a stand still...stores close, cars stop in their tracks etc
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Annicita
on August 28, 2013 at 1:22 PM
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yes it is quite a conundrum there. but i really miss it and my hubby terribly so
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Annicita
on August 28, 2013 at 1:19 PM
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yes but as I was talking with my hubby he told me that each country doesn't like the other for one reason or another. Though I don't recall anybody saying anything bad about Lebanese which I am part Lebanese on my dad's side. Many of the Arab countries don't like the Egyptians because they break laws and then cry about the punishment. The Egyptians don't like many of the other countries because they are treated as the poor member of the family. They pay Egyptians less. The Palestinians are not liked because they lie. The Kuwaitis are disliked because they think they are better than the others since they now have oil. and on it goes....
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Annicita
on August 28, 2013 at 1:17 PM
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Re: There's a lot of detatil in this episode, but what struck a note with me
well he had a loudspeaker with a microphone...so obnoxious even with the windows closed all the way up on the 16th floor!
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Annicita
on August 28, 2013 at 1:13 PM
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well they are just a hop skip and jump away from there
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Annicita
on August 28, 2013 at 1:11 PM
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when i was little it was a haunted house but you had to buy 25 burgers to get it 
and there were six of us
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Annicita
on August 28, 2013 at 1:10 PM
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I bet the prayer mats are dusty.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 28, 2013 at 11:46 AM
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sounds like they have a mixture of modern conveniences and are very old fashion in other things
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Lanetay
on August 28, 2013 at 9:45 AM
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Amazing descriptions... so vivid...You know what? You are describing an afternoon in Egypt and I thought.. so similar to Jerusalem... The crowded streets come to a stop on Friday's sunsets and just before the markets are packed with hundreds of people doing their shopping for the Shabbat meal... and there is the junkman with his cart and the furniture guy sawing cushions and the carts in the middle of the square... So different and so the same... Doesn't it make you wonder if there are so many similarities why do they fight all the time?
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Sinome
on August 27, 2013 at 7:59 PM
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There's a lot of detatil in this episode, but what struck a note with me
was the fellow pushing the cart through the street and calling for junk. In the old Bronx when I was a kid someone was always pushing a cart, chanting "I cash clothes. I cash clothes" - he bought old clothes. Another one hawked "Jarvel Water," which was a kind of bleach. You threw the coin from the window and he'd hoist up a glass gallon jug on the dumbwaiter. Street sales (perfectly innocent ones) were pretty big in those days.
posted by
2902
on August 27, 2013 at 7:07 PM
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Reading here...so much about Alexandria is like being in Greece...even the accidents.
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Kabu
on August 27, 2013 at 7:04 PM
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January 19th just so happens to be my father's birthday...When I was a kid, McDonald's gave away these plastic pumpkins to use for Trick-or-Treating.
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FormerStudentIntern
on August 27, 2013 at 6:40 PM
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