Reply #10: Not to worry!

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Most Egyptians don't have a problem with Jews. Until fairly recently Egypt had a large Jewish population. Especially Alexandria. They might have a problem if you were currently employed by the State Of Israel.

Funny Story #1: many of my Egyptian co-workers had training at our company's facility in Los Angeles. Sometimes they got hungry for real Middle Eastern food, but they had to make sure it was halal--the Muslim version of kosher.

So naturally, when the hungry Muslims wanted some down-home cooking...they searched out a kosher Jewish deli. The religious dietary rules are pretty much the same.

That just cracks me up.

Funny Story #2: the Egyptian government, with great patriotic PR fanfare, recently re-named a street in Cairo "The Street Of The Egyptians."

But most Cairenes continue to call that street the name by which it was known for, oh, 700 years or so--"The Street of the Jews."