"The man behind the desk hesitated when he reached the line that listed her #religion. He looked from her ID back to her face as if the two did not belong to the same person.

#MagdaHaroun recalls the encounter with a tired smile. It happens often. “They look at my ID and they look at me and say, ‘Is it true?’ I stand up and tell them: look, two arms, two legs, no tail. My nose isn’t that bad. I am a human being like you.”

In today’s #Egypt, she is often the first #Jew that people have ever encountered, but #Cairo was once a #Jewish hub, a community that included Moses #Maimonides and the #SaadiaGaon, and, more recently, actress #LeilaMourad and pioneering animators Herschel, Shlomo, and David #Frenkel.

Today Haroun cares for a community that exists more in memory than in life."

https://thejewishindependent.com.au/preserving-egypt-jewish-heritage