Having been to Egypt I am not so worried; the people on average, are nicer, and more welcoming, than the average person in England.
Of course some of that is because as an obvious tourist they wanted my money, but my sister worked there teaching English so we visited families and went to very out of the way places. Egypt is very modern. there are bars with both men and women with "western" clothes (meaning they have as much choice as we do), there are cinemas - hey, they have everything we have, the main difference is the heavy security presence in many places - so very much like northern ireland at one point then.
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