Cairo PIV: Reconciliation April 4, 2009
Posted by bookncurls in A Comment, Middle East.Tags: Cairo
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(Part of the Middle Eastern Cities series.)
Fast forward 8 years later. Having left Cairo with no intension of speaking Arabic or being involved with the Middle East again I was a little shocked to be asked one day to teach Arabic. I told Maggie Nassif, a very classy woman, of the National Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC) that I would only do it if I could get some help. She did find people to help and we had a great experience.
I finally told her I had a bad experience in Cairo. She was very gracious with me as she is from a suburb of the city. A week or so later she started telling me stories about her family growing up humanizing Cairo for me. And as she spoke, I could feel some of my walls come down. It’s a place where real people with real stories live.
I really hope I get to go back to Cairo this summer. I want to try it again.
See previous posts in the series:
Part III: “Cairo as an Arabic Student: Mosques and Trains”
Cairo Part II: “Cairo for the first time with an Argentine Flair”
when do you find out? i hope it works out too!
Thanks. They told me I would probably find out this week or next.
Good luck.
Cairo has unique charm!
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