I’ve heard the same from most people who traveled there. A former coworker went there with her husband on their honeymoon (they made a weeks-long trip throughout the Holy Land and Egypt) in the late 1970s I think it was. She got all banged up in the bazaar in Cairo or other market area because the burkah-clad Egyptian beeotches would kick her or step on her feet because she was going around the way that women from actual civilizations go around.
That horrible mass-murder of tourists at Luxor was carried out by typical jihadi; the locals got very pissed off by that, and chased down the shooters, and beat the living hell out of at least one of them. I think that’s how all of them were apprehended.
I don't recall the Egyptian women being particularly bitchy. The bazaar is a zoo, but then third world bazaars usually are. I've seen'em all.
Egypt produces fabulous cottons, I do know. But an entire nation can't live off of one product. With that glorious river they can grow all they need to feed their people. But, more employment is needed, I think.
I remember one Christmas in Cairo. We were living in Saudi Arabia and the time, working for ARAMCO. My husband stayed at the hotel and saw "Miracle on 34th Street" on television (with a very young Natalie Wood) and my mother and I went to Midnight Mass.
The taxi driver took us there. I didn't think it would last until 2:00 A.M. and was worried about getting a taxi back to the hotel.
Well, the taxi driver had waited for us! It was a pretty wonderful Christmas.