Article December 22, 2003 Issue

CHRISTMAS DAWNS—fresh light on the season

with contributions from Susan Omar, Ginger Sitali, Cynthia Newport, Jeremy Carper, Ginny Luedeman, Priscilla del Castillo, Jane McCarty, Peter Julian, Beverly Bemis Hawks De Windt, Carol Winograd, Melissa Knight, Denise Reehl

By Susan Omar

"Your hands are blessed." As a bride visiting my new family in Egypt, I learned to say this phrase in Arabic to thank the hostess for a lovely meal.

Twenty years later, when my brother-in-law, Amir, escorted me to the table in his home in Cario, he said something in Arabic, and everyone laughed. My husband translated for me. "There is no insist."

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