Herding [a camel] for a day makes you a goat for a year.
-Arab proverb on the backward nature of herdsmen, collected by J R Jewitt, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1893
KhairAllah told me he had made hundreds of trips up the Darb, so it’s lucky that Muslims don’t believe in reincarnation. That would be too long avoiding the butcher knife. Karma…why not come back as a camel tick and get to Cairo the easy way?