Khan el-Khalily

Last night we visited holy places of each of the three Abrahamic faiths in the Khan district, went to the Zamalek (Old Campus) dorms for pizza and pop, and then shopped in the historic Khan el-Khalily. I picked up a trinket for a young boy at my church who's going through an Egypt phase.
As they do with all American girls, the sellers were having fun. "Oh, your eyes - they are so beautiful!" "You look like Fatima! (famous Arab singer)" "You are a very lucky man (to the guy I was walking with at the time)." I didn't have any actual trouble, though.
One of the guys I was hanging out with spent last year in Lebanon and knows a decent amount of street Arabic, but it's definitely not the Cairene dialect. He was getting along with one of the sellers he was working out a big deal with, though, and he took us into a back room through another store that was locked up to show us "genuine papyri." Definitely not genuine - it was banana leaf. And he just kept saying "Come, come" instead of telling us where he was taking us. A bit of an adventure. There were several of us, and the room obviously didn't lead anywhere else, though, so don't worry - we were fine.