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...Erol N. Gulay is an editorial editor...
...Erol N. Gulay is an editorial editor...
...Erol N. Gulay is an editorial editor...
CAIRO, Egypt—Cairo has not met my wildest imaginations. My “Erol of Arabia” dreams of racing across the desert on a black Arabian horse, scimitar in hand, screaming, wearing a kafiyya, then arriving in Cairo, making a cameo at a local protest, with bullhorn in my other hand, burning a few flags and finally sheesha-smoking the night away has not been realized. Instead, I unglamorously touched down in an airplane, took a cab to my bare hostel room and have spent most nights studying Arabic. I have not been on a horse...
...Erol N. Gulay ’05, a Crimson editor, is a social studies concentrator in Kirkland House. He thoroughly enjoys the fact that, in Egypt at least, Arabs get to profile and search Americans at the airports...