Feisal (played by Alec Guinness in blackface): There’s nothing in the desert.
-Lawrence of Arabia, screenplay by Robert Bolt
You hear that a lot in Cairo, Wa laa haaga, And not a thing. Nothing. As in the answer to the question, What do you want, or What are you looking at? Wa laa haaga. As in, Mind your own business!, and you say, Okay. But that is city talk. On the trail, anyone’s business is everyone’s business. Feisal was wrong, there’s everything in the desert, where men discuss all of it.