#white people
I could feel their heavy-eyed stares whether I was entering my hotel in Sharm El-Sheikh, walking along the leafy streets of Maadi, or sitting in an air-conditioned metro cart in Cairo. "You're not Egyptian!" almost every security guard or hotel staff member would comment. "Are you really Egyptian? Both parents? Where are you from?" random Egyptians would quip whenever I was in public. "No way! You're lying!" would often be the response no matter what I said, even if it…
