‘Uppitiness is Not Well Tolerated Among Egyptians’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.08.08 | 5:39 PM ET
“Call me paranoid,” writes Gigi Douban in The Morning News, “but I think the grocery store clerk was sending a message loud and clear, horse-head-in-the-bed-style.” The alleged uppity crime? Sprinkling a little English with Arabic when ordering groceries in Cairo.
Ling 10.09.08 | 10:36 AM ET
That was one long article, but good end. Kinda shocked me, and I was just reading, so I can imagine how they must have felt.