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It was also easy to talk to Egyptians, partly because Egyptians are generally congenial, but in particular because I was doing research on tourism, and the people who work in the tourism industry are, whether by nature or by training, friendly, voluble, and used to talking to strangers. As Crick observes, tour guides are to tourists what informants are to anthropologists: skilled cultural translators.

But I was less confident about approaching Arab tourists. I had a background in the Arab Gulf, having lived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for two years as a photographer and teacher, and I had subsequently married a Palestinian man, so I was familiar with Saudi culture and some non-Egyptian dialects (Levantine and Hijazi). Yet, knowing the culture, I was aware of problems I'd face.