The family of the Arabist’s better half lives in South Africa. I recently received a scan of a travel article that recently appeared in the Pretoria Sunday Times about a golfer’s adventure at the Taba Marriott involving an Israeli, an irate anti-Zionist, golf clubs used as weapons, useless hotel staff and rather over-zealous state security officers. Click on the link below for the PDF.
Here’s the online article link:
http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Lifestyle/Article.aspx?id=675019
Good god. That’s the most perfect Egypt tourist story EVER.
Sounds reassuring, in view of my coming move to Egypt. On the other hand, I loathe golf, so maybe I run a chance of surviving my stay…
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