Dinner wih Omar

An Evening With Omar

For those who have been taken by Ishraq's dancing, you're, well.... in good company.

Richard and Ishraq have a vacation house in El Gouna, an Egyptian resort on the Red Sea. (If you'd like to have a look at it, click here).

They rent the second floor to Tarek Sharif, with whom they've become friends. The two families went for a weekend together in Deauville, where Tarek's father Omar came up from Paris to join them. Omar took them to dinner at a restaurant that featured belly-dancing, audience participation encouraged. Ishraq was persuaded to dance (of course). Omar - an aficionado of the art - declared her to be in grace and skill second only the top star of Egypt. It is of course my opinion that he wasn't exaggerating a bit!


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