As regards the pyramids, if you've ever seen one of the Great Pyramids the idea of "tearing it down" is laughable. Each one is a mountain made up of thousands of 2.5 to 70 ton individual stones. The good part is saying they're going to try will infuriate a vast part of the Egyptian population and definitely the elites. The ones with money and in control of the guns, that is.
Have you noticed that everything Obama has touched and associated himself with, and everywhere he has set foot to speak, has to some degree turned into a disaster? From Chicago to Cairo to Washington. It is a pattern that needs to be illustrated and reinforced in the American public's mind.
Yes, I have noticed. I thought my friend from Spain was going to up and die of rage when he was elected, but I talked her out of it with the offer of a trip to Durham to see a Spanish art exhibit. "I can't get a refund on the tickets, Dona Edra!"
Before I started Middle Eastern dance, I was a student of the oil industry, being in business school in Texas. The Middle East fascinates me. Dr. John McWhorter, the linguist, says that versions of Arabic across its range are mutually unintelligible, as different as English and Dutch, for example.
And their cultures, including dance, are also very different. Habiba was very into "folkloric" styles. Turkish vs. Arabian peninsula, no relationship at all. And the "Tunisian twist," up on your toes, very fast, large hip switches, put me on my back for a week in my 6th pregnancy. Then my husband lost his job, and his guitar lessons and my dancing were sacrificed for groceries and Scouting for the kids.