Pic from a few weeks ago at Arabic school in Cairo (left to right:
me, Jun a "Doctors without Borders" worker from Tokyo, who sent me
this pic, and Francesco, a university student from Italy who
really likes "russ bilaban", i.e., rice with milk, which is
what you can buy in little stores all over the place):
I learned an incredible amount of Arabic for the time I spent
there (much more than last
time in Alexandria). Now, I can write Arabic (albeit badly),
read it (though...