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علي فكرة ده النص للحوار علي النيويورك تايمز لسؤالين ليهم علاقة بالححاب والدين
did your mother wear a headscarf?
No, only lately, she started to wear them. When i was growing up, there was not a single woman in egypt that was wearing a scarf. That was not the thing. This is all the last ten years, i would say.
So she has started to wear one now?
Five, ten year. I think it’s more of a ... I don’t know whether it’s peer pressure. It’s tradition now. This is one of the issues i discuss with her every single day, that it doesn’t make sense for you to wear it. But, in a joking way. She’s 82, so i’m not going to change the way she thinks now. But this is one of the .......ious issues i have with her, that i tease her about it.
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to what extent does your religion help shape your world view?
Not much, as much as any religion. To me religion is the core values [with] which i felt as comfortable christians, with buddhists, with jews. I don’t see much difference. [...] egypt at that time was multi-cultural. I remember i used to play squash. I bought the equipment from a shop that was run by australians. My father used to go rowing and his trainer was an italian. My mother used to go to a tailor, "madame euphegine", she was french. My parents used to buy me toys from a shop, mr. Zak, who was jewish. Egypt was in a way was very much, religion was not something people talked about. [...] but, religion to me, at that time, and continues to be, it’s a good guiding set of principles which i share with everybody else. My daughter’s husband is british, my first girlfriend was jewish. I never really felt that religion is a major factor i have to take into account.