The Arabic greeting of kissing on the cheeks is often very confusing to the newcomer in the Middle East. At least it was for me. I did not know you were not supposed to touch your lips to the cheek and I was going around actually kissing everyone. No wonder everyone had horrified looks on their faces when they saw me coming. A fellow blogger over in Amman, Jordan has put together this easy-to-follow
guide to Arabic greeting cheek kisses. If you follow the Jordanian model in Egypt you can't go wrong.
Do you know why several teenage girls wanted to kiss my 10 year old blue-eyed light haired daughter on the cheeks, while we were visiting in Egypt back in April?
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