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Having spent 16 days in upper and lower Egypt, Alexandria, Cairo, El Alamein and Marina, I've gotten a crash course in Egypt 101.

Part of my trip involved the standard fare: the temples, tombs and pharaohs, the mighty Nile, the pyramids and so forth. Not as many people know that writing was invented in Egypt, which developed a highly efficient bureaucracy to run the country and give the Egyptian culture coherence and conservatism.

And yet, for all its grandeur and historical greatness, Egypt is nowhere near as vibrant or wealthy.

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