Picture this: A loud family gathering, a dining table full of traditional western and Egyptian Christmas dishes, a few slightly intoxicated family members trying to ‘out-loud’ each other, a few others running after the adrenaline-filled group of kids and the young adults who try to make up their mind between receiving this year’s ‘eideiya’ (an Egyptian holiday tradition in which older members of the family hand out money to younger ones) or giving one themselves. It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas, isn’t it? Egyptian Christmas, that is. Every year during Christmas time, people rush back to some of their favorite holiday films—almost as if watching them is in and of itself a tradition. With that in mind, one begins to wonder, what if we had a classic Egyptian Christmas film that we could always go back to watching every year? While this idea may seem slightly far-fetched, an Egyptian Christmas film might actually make for some great humor-filled content. Since the majority of the Egyptian Christian population belongs to the Coptic Orthodox denomination—which represents over 90 percent of the country’s Christian community, the film would naturally showcase the…
My Big Fat Egyptian Christmas: What If We Had an Egyptian Christmas Film?
December 26, 2020
