Quote of the day (5): 'stop raping my language!'

"These stupid Egyptians need to stop verbally raping the Arabic language."

Source: my Arabic teacher. He doesn't really like Egypt. 

Quote of the day (4): the definition of 'to faint'

"To faint means to fall asleep unexpectedly", one of my students told me today.

Somebody is getting extra points for creative thinking. 

Quote of the day (3): Egyptian media are like porn

"Egyptian media are like porn: you can't stop watching and reading, but afterwards you feel kind of dirty and you wish you hadn't wasted so much time looking at it."

Source: once again, one of my insightful Egyptian students

Quote of the day (2): On voting in pre-revolution Egypt

"A ballot box in Egypt was like a magic box: you put the paper in with a vote against Mubarak and it would come out as a 'yes'!"

Hopefully they have toned down on the magic tricks this time around.

Source: one of my (Egyptian) students.

Quote of the day (1): Never trust a man...

"Never trust a man that keeps a drawer full of condoms next to his bed."

Duly noted.

Source: an anonymous friend (female, of course)