Born Egyptian or married with an Egyptian, living in Egypt or just having connections and friends from Egypt - well it is absolutely impossible not to be "embraced" by the Egyptian influences.
Like this soon you will realize that in you is living an Egyptian too :). How you can discover this? We are about to find out :).
1.You know "1 minute" = 1 hour
2.You hear people around you saying "estubid" and "owet" for "stupid" and "out" and you find this so normal
3.You want to hit anyone who drives you crazy with anything that is near to you, anything from a shoe to a bowl
4.Your relatives brag about their kids even if they are bad and you approve them
5.Your favorite food is warah aneb (ma7shi), but you are embarrassed to tell your friends that you eat leaves for dinner
6.Your future 'taunt' asks you when she can dance at your wedding
7.You start to use more cologne than deodorant
8.You pronounce "the things" za sings", just because it is a "local Egyptian" way to say it
9.Your relatives swears at their kids with words that effect them and not the kids "ya ibn il kalb!!!"
10.You put tahina in and on everything and brag about how healthy it is because Egyptians are using it since thousand of years
11.You gossip about your own family...with members of your own family
12.You eat kofta at least 4 times a week
13.You cook a meal that lasts a week
14.You watch the hell out of the Arabic channel
15.You have billions of cousins
16.At weddings it takes the bride and groom 4 hours to hug and kiss all the guests and everybody hits their drink with their forks
17.You "get down" from the car instead of "getting out" of it
18.You love to laugh and smile :D
19.You have a gold necklace of your name written in Hieroglyphics or Arabic (coz it is a must since you are Egyptian)
20.You play cards till the break of dawn
21.Your friends usually say things like: put za sings in za sing
22.You can't have a meal without aish baladi (arabic bread)
23.You feel proud when someone famous or a celebrity has any Egyptian blood in them
24.You teach your European/ American friends Arabic words (mostly bad ones) and get happy when they use them in normal conversations
25.You have ten different foods at your dinner table
26.You get really happy and call the whole family to the room when there is a special or documentary on Egyptians or anything Arabic related on CNN or PBS
27.You have lefa hair...and if you don't, u have curly hair
28.You own a grocery store or a gas station or a shaorma store
29.You smoke as if it were your last day on earth...and you only smoke apple or manga sheesha
30.You own and/or play a tublah
31.Your middle name is your father's first name (the same applies for the kids when your husband is Egyptian - my husband has 9 names :D - K M M Y M I Y M I)
32. You’re probably pre-med or engineering and you want your kids the same
33. You could kill for some macarona bil- béchamel, mashi, and baba ghanouk
2.You hear people around you saying "estubid" and "owet" for "stupid" and "out" and you find this so normal
3.You want to hit anyone who drives you crazy with anything that is near to you, anything from a shoe to a bowl
4.Your relatives brag about their kids even if they are bad and you approve them
5.Your favorite food is warah aneb (ma7shi), but you are embarrassed to tell your friends that you eat leaves for dinner
6.Your future 'taunt' asks you when she can dance at your wedding
7.You start to use more cologne than deodorant
8.You pronounce "the things" za sings", just because it is a "local Egyptian" way to say it
9.Your relatives swears at their kids with words that effect them and not the kids "ya ibn il kalb!!!"
10.You put tahina in and on everything and brag about how healthy it is because Egyptians are using it since thousand of years
11.You gossip about your own family...with members of your own family
12.You eat kofta at least 4 times a week
13.You cook a meal that lasts a week
14.You watch the hell out of the Arabic channel
15.You have billions of cousins
16.At weddings it takes the bride and groom 4 hours to hug and kiss all the guests and everybody hits their drink with their forks
17.You "get down" from the car instead of "getting out" of it
18.You love to laugh and smile :D
19.You have a gold necklace of your name written in Hieroglyphics or Arabic (coz it is a must since you are Egyptian)
20.You play cards till the break of dawn
21.Your friends usually say things like: put za sings in za sing
22.You can't have a meal without aish baladi (arabic bread)
23.You feel proud when someone famous or a celebrity has any Egyptian blood in them
24.You teach your European/ American friends Arabic words (mostly bad ones) and get happy when they use them in normal conversations
25.You have ten different foods at your dinner table
26.You get really happy and call the whole family to the room when there is a special or documentary on Egyptians or anything Arabic related on CNN or PBS
27.You have lefa hair...and if you don't, u have curly hair
28.You own a grocery store or a gas station or a shaorma store
29.You smoke as if it were your last day on earth...and you only smoke apple or manga sheesha
30.You own and/or play a tublah
31.Your middle name is your father's first name (the same applies for the kids when your husband is Egyptian - my husband has 9 names :D - K M M Y M I Y M I)
32. You’re probably pre-med or engineering and you want your kids the same
33. You could kill for some macarona bil- béchamel, mashi, and baba ghanouk
34. Your parents think Umm-Khalthoom IS what's hot (yes true :)))))) )
35. You invented and perfected the art of bellydancing
36. You’re probably the loudest in your circle of friends
37. You know a cup of tea is shai-bil laaban, not bil haleeb
38. You know Egypt’s got it down for movies, music, and clothes~
39. Whenever you meet a fellow Egyptian in a store, you get a discount.
40. You’re ALWAYS LATE….it’s a gene, ok?! (true again to me too)
41. The only maintenance you do to your car is a car wash, or not even.
42. Your wife is also your first cousin or from ur family (I saw this :D)
35. You invented and perfected the art of bellydancing
36. You’re probably the loudest in your circle of friends
37. You know a cup of tea is shai-bil laaban, not bil haleeb
38. You know Egypt’s got it down for movies, music, and clothes~
39. Whenever you meet a fellow Egyptian in a store, you get a discount.
40. You’re ALWAYS LATE….it’s a gene, ok?! (true again to me too)
41. The only maintenance you do to your car is a car wash, or not even.
42. Your wife is also your first cousin or from ur family (I saw this :D)
43. You are bald and fat and blame it on stress.
44. You got a lot of money and drive a BMW or a Benz and still can’t pick up any women.
45. After a family meal, the women fight to the death over who should wash the dishes while the men sit on their behinds and discuss politics, waiting for their tea (not my case :P)
44. You got a lot of money and drive a BMW or a Benz and still can’t pick up any women.
45. After a family meal, the women fight to the death over who should wash the dishes while the men sit on their behinds and discuss politics, waiting for their tea (not my case :P)
46. Walk around the house in your underwear coz it is too hot
47. Watch the hell out of the ART channel and talk nonsense about the rest.
48. Ur only source of news is Aljazzera or neighbors
50. You got more than 4 kids (not my case again :P)
47. Watch the hell out of the ART channel and talk nonsense about the rest.
48. Ur only source of news is Aljazzera or neighbors
50. You got more than 4 kids (not my case again :P)
51. Your middle name is your father’s first name. (lol so true in my husband case :D)
52. U have about millions of cousins.
53. Act like you want to pay, but in reality you hate to pay.
54. You are standing next to the largest suitcases at the Airport. (tha't me :)))) )
55. Your Parents scream into the phone, and if u don’t answer your phone they leave about 200 messages on your voicemail. (happen to me too with my parents and now with my husband too, although he knows I m at work :)))) )
56. When u try to explain your Egyptian friends to your European/ American friends u say they r your cousins.
57. If you’re an Egyptian woman u always complain on how your fat u r…and how u always lose weights on fasts (yes, I know them very well :))))))))) )
52. U have about millions of cousins.
53. Act like you want to pay, but in reality you hate to pay.
54. You are standing next to the largest suitcases at the Airport. (tha't me :)))) )
55. Your Parents scream into the phone, and if u don’t answer your phone they leave about 200 messages on your voicemail. (happen to me too with my parents and now with my husband too, although he knows I m at work :)))) )
56. When u try to explain your Egyptian friends to your European/ American friends u say they r your cousins.
57. If you’re an Egyptian woman u always complain on how your fat u r…and how u always lose weights on fasts (yes, I know them very well :))))))))) )
58. If you’re an Egyptian woman you always have to bleach ur hair a color not normal and swear it's real (and wear the hijab not to cover the front part so that it can be seen the hair... otherwise, why to bleach it if nobody will see it? :))))))
59. Egyptian men have leefa hair
60. You have "fool” or “Koshary” for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
61. You say words like “ Ezayek”, “Eshtah”, “Gedan” and “Aywah”
62. You ask your relatives from Egypt a simple question and they tell you a story of how they had to walk miles just to get to school.
63. If you are 25 and not married yet, your relatives make you feel that you are getting too old.
64. Everyone is a family friend.
65. People are never happy with what you've achieved. If you graduated from school they'll tell you "3o2bal el Shehada el kebera", and when u get that "3o2bal el 3aroosa or 3areees", and when you get that "3o2bal ma nefra7 be awladkom", and when you get that "3o2bal ma tefra7 be shehadithum", etc...
66. When you FLY BACK home you find 20 people waiting for you at the airport
67. Every time you fly back home you meet relatives you never knew existed and they look nothing like your family.
68. Getting a visa to Europe or the States is like getting a baby, everybody tells you "mabrook" (u get a "mabrook" for everything, even if you just do your nails or buy a pair of socks :))))) )
60. You have "fool” or “Koshary” for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
61. You say words like “ Ezayek”, “Eshtah”, “Gedan” and “Aywah”
62. You ask your relatives from Egypt a simple question and they tell you a story of how they had to walk miles just to get to school.
63. If you are 25 and not married yet, your relatives make you feel that you are getting too old.
64. Everyone is a family friend.
65. People are never happy with what you've achieved. If you graduated from school they'll tell you "3o2bal el Shehada el kebera", and when u get that "3o2bal el 3aroosa or 3areees", and when you get that "3o2bal ma nefra7 be awladkom", and when you get that "3o2bal ma tefra7 be shehadithum", etc...
66. When you FLY BACK home you find 20 people waiting for you at the airport
67. Every time you fly back home you meet relatives you never knew existed and they look nothing like your family.
68. Getting a visa to Europe or the States is like getting a baby, everybody tells you "mabrook" (u get a "mabrook" for everything, even if you just do your nails or buy a pair of socks :))))) )
