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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nefertiti: [QB] Hi Lori It's part of the Muslim Religion. If a Muslim follows the Quran to the letter, then a man and woman that are not related by blood or marriage will not spend any time alone - especially in public. No matter if you had worn a giant sheet to make yourself covered and respectable, it would still be looked at as being wrong. It probably wasn't about what you were wearing, but the situation you were in. Yes shorts, tank tops, kissing in public etc are very normal and acceptable in Europe, but in Egypt no. The procedure for meeting a partner (which should be with the intention to marry) is that the man should approach the womans family and ask if he may "have her hand in marriage" (British term i think <IMG SRC="http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/smile.gif">) From here i'm not entirely clear what would happen but any contact would be supervised or chaperoned. There would be lots of other things involved like families meeting etc etc but i think you may get the general idea so far. In saying all of the above, this is how it should be, but isn't always. I think that in some parts of Egypt, Egyptian men and women do "date", they just might not call it dating because it isn't right. Your partner may have been trying to prove to you that you weren't just some tourist to him, by taking you to a restaurant mainly used by Egyptians, but it would have been better if he had taken you to a restaurant full of other tourists. I wouldn't worry that you have offended anyone, you're not Egyptian and you're not Muslim so how would you know. European culture is very different to Egyptian culture. The good thing is that you're trying to find out exactly what the culture is, it will help if you intend to spend time in Egypt in the future. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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