Mon, Jul 19, 2004 - Page 6 News List

Humor runs deep in Egypt's culture

DPA , Cairo

Talking to her neighbor, also married to a sheikh, the woman is aghast to find out she sleeps with her husband five times a day, the same number of prayer sessions observed by practicing Moslems.

The woman returns home and plasters her apartment with posters saying: "Islam is the solution."

"The reason people tell jokes is that Egypt is so full of contradictions," Fawzi said.

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