"We are a racist people in Egypt and we are in deep denial about it. On my Facebook page, I blamed racism for my argument and an Egyptian man wrote to deny that we are racists and used as his proof a program on Egyptian Radio featuring Sudanese songs and poetry! Our silence over racism not only destroys the warmth and hospitality we are proud of as Egyptians, it has deadly consequences."
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Immigrants to the United StatesWomen born in the 1960sEssayists from EgyptWomen journalists from Egypt
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"The Arab world's dirty secret", The New York Times (November 10, 2008).
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