Culture Shock! Egypt - A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
242 CultureShock! Egypt Arabic Transliteration Ĉ bu ̃ ï bı ̃ sí bã ĈÍ d.amma bu ïÍ kasra bi íííÍ fath.a ba Arabic Numerals ...
Communicating Egyptian Style 243 Words possess power. As such, conversations contain frequent blessings to keep things going wel ...
244 CultureShock! Egypt To avoid making a bad situation worse, euphemisms replace explicit references to an illness, death or di ...
Communicating Egyptian Style 245 Assalamu’alaykum and wa ’alaykum assalam Literally, assalamu’alaykum means ‘peace be upon you ...
246 CultureShock! Egypt Mashallah (Ma sha’ Allah) Literally, ‘what God wills’. This phrase is used when seeing a child or comp ...
Communicating Egyptian Style 247 of the non-verbal aspects of communication that accompany speech. Sometimes called the silent l ...
248 CultureShock! Egypt Pointing at people is equally insulting in Egypt, as it is in the United States and Europe. Beckonin ...
Communicating Egyptian Style 249 as possible and stop talking, petrifi ed they may actually have to touch another person or smel ...
250 CultureShock! Egypt relatives rarely occurs, so smiling is a way they indicate prospective interest in a marriage. Since for ...
Communicating Egyptian Style 251 station, a lift or generally in public in the United Kingdom. In parts of the United States, th ...
252 CultureShock! Egypt where you are from, direct eye contact connotes honesty, respect, disrespect, fl irtation or a sexual co ...
Communicating Egyptian Style 253 walking. Regardless of whether you are with Egyptians or other foreigners, kissing, fondling or ...
254 CultureShock! Egypt of what to do next. Finally, a sympathetic toll taker noticed the Americans standing there and waved the ...
Communicating Egyptian Style 255 Women are particularly sensitive about having their pictures taken by strangers. If a woman see ...
‘True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubte ...
Business 257 Business Style People often describe the Egyptian business style as being personal. This concept interweaves a leve ...
258 CultureShock! Egypt The conversation may follow many forms, but eventually both participants or groups must somehow establis ...
Business 259 customs (and don’t mind them calling you at home), get cards printed with your home phone number included. It looks ...
260 CultureShock! Egypt you are given the hospitality you, as a guest, deserve. I say ‘most probably’ because just about the tim ...
Business 261 will not try to get the better of a negotiation—but then, that is all just part of being a good businessman. Does t ...
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