Welcome to Egypt, sir.
-Antony and Cleopatra, 2.2.207
We had a very strange welcome in Binban. Daoud and I were used to being objects of great curiosity, even greater surprise, whenever the Dabouka would come upon strangers along the Way. But here at trail’s end, when swarms of donkey-riding merchants came out to meet us, eager to reserve the fittest of the herd for purchase, they found nothing at all remarkable about us. Their eyes were on the camels alone, not the Khawājas.