âWhat do you think youâre so special? Youâre not American
okay, only Indian!â I hadnât quite expected to hear those words from an angry
camel carriage driver ferrying a family of four, of which the wife and daughter
were shrouded in cowls and the husband was upset that I had refused to pose
with his son for a photograph. I had certainly not expected to hear them in the
foreground of the Great Pyramids of Giza.
I had been planning a trip to Egypt for ten years. Towards
the end o