So it is accepted in Egypt

the Muslim belief defines pace of life of Egyptians. You can perceive it to purely choronomic signs: for example, five times a day muedzin through a loudspeaker convokes believers on a pray. And in a month ramadan night becomes day. All the day long Moslems fast and interrupt a post only after a sunset. At this time public life fades, official bodies work only from 10 o'clock till 14 o'clock or as Egyptians joke, meaning efficacyy of such job, - from ten to without a quarter ten.

Islamizatsija almost has completely eradicated customs of an epoch of pharaons, behind exclusion, maybe, belly dance. However, radical Moslems declared to it so irreconcilable war supported with threat of use of force, that the increasing number of dancers prefers to remain out of work. By the way, arts much of these priestesses - pupils of the European schools of dance.

The Traveller, of course, will pay attention to features of a national suit of the Egyptians, first of all manifested in a countryside. But they are not alien and to the city dweller. Egyptians wear shirts of free breed, and simple people prefer a white. Women put on in black, resuscitating the dress bright elements: ornaments and laces. Addressing to Muslim traditions, more and more women - it is frequent under the insisting of the husband or of monogynopaedium - again start to wear higab, variety parandzhi, not hiding the face, but only covering a hair. A suit often complete long rezvevajushchiesja galabazhi. Often women are refunded to ancient clothes and - because of a worsening financial position many of them do not presume to make of practical reasons to themselves a hairdress or to purchase a new dress.