Eid

Eid in Egypt has a special taste...There are things to do, people to meet and lots of cookies to eat. You get kahk, ghorayeba, basboosa and all the rest of the gang for breakfast before wearing any avialble new clothes and marching off for Eid prayer at about 6:30 in the morning. After you're done, you're back home...Eating more cookies. Having the third or fourth breakfast (personally I lost count of the number of breakfasts I had that morning).

You may then proceed to what I like to call, EAPM...Eid Afternoon Phone Meetings. You start calling any relative whether the last time you talked to him/her was yesterday or sixteen years ago, it doesn't really matter! Eventually, you have to call people and wish them a happy Eid, inquire on their families, how they go, how life's been treating them. Some good news, some bad news, but mostly everything is normal with no news at all.

Then of course is Eid evening...And that's family meetings. And, obviously, the evening tea and more cookies. For those of you who are or were unfortunate enough to have never tasted Egyptian Eid cookies, here is their most basic form:
A cookie stuffed with something really sweet (that has this really shitty word in English) and served with crushed sugar sprayed over it. It has this unbelievable fat percentage of it but of course; nobody gives a shit; it's Eid!

In any case, as I said before, you get to feel a unique Eid in Egypt...Course I'm not advertising (though I must and should) but, truely, at least for yours truly; Eid in Egypt is incredible.