tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post2032916400452823411..comments2024-03-20T01:06:12.181-04:00Comments on MEI Editor's Blog: Nostslgia: Once, Long Ago, The World and I Were Young. Though Cairo was OldUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-29453359932767026722014-08-28T18:38:26.060-04:002014-08-28T18:38:26.060-04:00Thanks for this bit of nostalgia. I arrived in C...Thanks for this bit of nostalgia. I arrived in Cairo when the Nile was in flood for the last time in August 1964, hugging my dog eared copy of Hans Wehr. As a Fulbright Scholar in the Middle East for the first time, I imagined that I was making good progress at Arabic. It was a news vendor in Midan at-Tahrir who quickly taught me that I was unable to speak the Egyptian dialect well enough to buy a copy of Al Ahram. David Macknoreply@blogger.com