Egypt

Salaam,

Have arrived safe and well in the land of the Pharoes. Went to my accomodation, and to my suprise this was the location of the old Qortoba where i studied 2 years ago; they've converted this building into a set of flats and moved to a nearby bigger building. Alhamdulillah the flat is really nice though and im sharing it with a convert bro from the US and a local egyptian who works for Qortoba.

In for a bit of a shock though; basically i think all the people here are hard core Salafis...basically quite opposite to the environment at Qasid so should be an interesting few months ahead..

Also despite having slept for 3 hours overnight in Amman, when i landed in Cairo i got invited to a wedding of one of the Qortoba teachers for after Maghrib. Alhamdulilla it was pretty cool; my first proper arab wedding in the middle east i think. I think the women had more fun though; although they were in a seperate building you could see shadows jumping up and down, they were banging away their drums, singing loud and doing that YALALALALALALLALALAA thing that arab women do...

Salaam