
EgyptToday: Found in Translation
HAVE YOU EVER longed for molokheya or a piece of basboussa and not been able to find the right ingredients to make it?...It was a Wednesday night and I was strolling around a lively street after work in Nagoya, one of the biggest cities in Japan, when I stumbled into a poster with a miniature image of the Pyramids and the Sphinx on it. Mere words cannot describe the warmth I felt and the shivers that ran up my spine at the sight of the picture despite weather that was so hot it was more like a furnace blast...all I could understand was that it was an advertisement for a belly dancing class. Yes, an Egyptian belly dancing class in Japan...more...