*Men and women are forbidden to hold hands in public, but men are unabashedly clingy to one another.
*Hawkers are like vultures and everything is “best price for you” and “looking is free”.
*They say “inshallah” to everything, this translates to “god willing”: we will come back to your carpet store, inshallah, the bus trip will be four hours, inshallah.
*You have 1 in 4 chances of guesses a man’s name, it’s either Mohamed, Ali, Said, or Hassan.
*Women cover themselves up so much you can barely see their pupils peeping out from their scarves, even at the beach.
*Hair is alluring to the point of vulgarity; mine drove an old crazy lady with cataract in one eye to pull my ponytail while cursing.
*There is a countless number of sad kitty cats here.
*Stubborn camels are pulled by their nose rings; apparently they really don’t like that.
*Every city picks the worst callers for the 5x daily prayer over the tinny megaphones.
*Even in the underground slums where the descendants of the Sudanese slaves live they have satellite tv, but we can’t get it to work in our hotel.