{"id":1409,"date":"2006-08-05T12:51:31","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T12:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2006-08-05T12:51:31","modified_gmt":"2006-08-05T12:51:31","slug":"2006-8-5-the-talk-of-the-town-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"The talk of the town"},"content":{"rendered":"
A conversation I had last night about Cairo’s private schools:<\/em><\/p>\n

Me:<\/strong> When does school start again?
Kid:<\/strong> In September.
Me:<\/strong> Will it be mostly the same people who were in your class last year?
Kid:<\/strong> No some people have left.
Mother:<\/strong> [Interjecting] Actually there’s a rather suspicious number of people who have switched to the Cairo American College (the biggest American school in Cairo.)
Me:<\/strong> How come?
Mother:<\/strong> Because Hosni Mubarak’s grandson is going there.
Me: <\/strong>Alaa’s son?
Mother:<\/strong> Yes.
Me:<\/strong> And people are moving to CAC to make sure their children get to know him?
Mother:<\/strong> Looks like it.
Me:<\/strong> [Perplexed] So basically it means that these people, the country’s elite, still think that in 15-20 years time it might still be an advantage to be close to the Mubarak family?
Mother:<\/strong> Well, yes — look at the elite today, they all went to school with each other.
Me:<\/strong> [Excitedly] But that probably means they think Gamal Mubarak will be the next president!
Mother: <\/strong>Well…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A conversation I had last night about Cairo’s private schools:<\/em>
\nMe:<\/strong> When does school start again?
\nKid:<\/strong> In September.
\nMe:<\/strong> Will it be mostly the same people who were in your class last year?
\nKid:<\/strong> No some people have left.
\nMother:<\/strong> [Interjecting] Actually there’s a rather suspicious number of people who have switched to the Cairo American College (the biggest American school in Cairo.)
\nMe:<\/strong> How come?
\nMother:<\/strong> Because Hosni Mubarak’s grandson is going there.
\nMe: <\/strong>Alaa’s son?
\nMother:<\/strong> Yes.
\nMe:<\/strong> And people are moving to CAC to make sure their children get to know him?
\nMother:<\/strong> Looks like it.
\nMe:<\/strong> [Perplexed] So basically it means that these people, the country’s elite, still think that in 15-20 years time it might still be an advantage to be close to the Mubarak family?
\nMother:<\/strong> Well, yes — look at the elite today, they all went to school with each other.
\nMe:<\/strong> [Excitedly] But that probably means they think Gamal Mubarak will be the next president!
\nMother: <\/strong>Well…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}