Hmm, what stereotypes of Egypt can I conjure up?

Just got back from this knee-slappin, pants-droppin Egyptian film titled “Ya, ana ya khallati” about this man so crazy in love for a girl and trying so hard to impress her mother that he posed as this flamboyant female fortune teller…. I get such a funny view of Egyptians from Morocco. They’re media is fantastic, but literally movies, singers, and soap operas is all I know of Egypt. Actually no – there’s also “Maha,” the Egyptian/New Yorker woman who recites our dialogue lessons in Arabic class. “Is – mee…. Maha, “ she starts out slo….wly, “Ana… mis – er – i – ya…” and we’re always poking jokes at this poor woman who has to talk in Arabic at not even a baby’s level! But such was life for a beginning Arabic class, and hopefully I have a more advanced image of Egypt in my head for the future.