Celebrations. Though no Holly for New Years, we did have Miss Caroline from Syria, a former Cairene, and Lucy of longterm Cairo-life fame, both of whom you've seen before on this blog from earlier this summer. And there's Naaz who last week took me to the only operating synagogue in Cairo, which is surrounded by guards milling about, run by a wonderful old woman from Cairo (Jewish side of her family from Yemen), which is open for the 200 or so Jews left in the city to operate in without a rabbi. And we all joined Sally's sister at her wedding on the 30th, my first Egyptian wedding. Congrats Sarah and Ahmed!
