Week long home stay in Ambaba
September 18th 2004 For one week during my semester in Cairo, my class dispersed throughout ‘Real Cairo’ for a weeklong home stay with a Muslim (most of us) family. By ‘real,’ I mean that it is off the typical tourist path of and I got the impression that many young kids in the area had not seen a westerner in person before. The neighborhood that I was ‘assigned’ to was off limits to our program’s stude
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