Qutta milk wa laa jamal shirk. A cat to own, not a camel to share.
-Egyptian proverb
Egyptians are famously argumentative compared to Sudanese, with their heavy tongues and heavy blood, the world’s first city people with cats keeping down the urban vermin. So let them purr. And let Sudanese keep camels even if they be in shares. Ishtiraakiyya, Socialism, with the root of Sharika, to share. For the Kababish, that means common risk, common reward, a long way between wells and one camel to carry the goatskins of many. For a Cairene, it means a long wait at the Mugamma’ Building making petty bribes for petty papers.