Sometimes, stereotyping is wrong. Other times, it's totally wrong. Syria is a perfect example for the latter. You will not believe that all this dance and song was in a Muslim country. And they just won't have it any other way.
The women and men were dancing and singing like there was no Saudi Arabia. And it really didn't seem gross,- they seemed perfectly convivial. The picture was taken in the Damascus Gate, the world's largest restaurant as per the Guinness Book of Records. It is, also, not coincidentally, the world's largest single source of hummus.
The occasion was a gala dinner for all the participants of the Medical Conference which Dhanya attended, and where, I too tagged along (as usual). The dancers were leading medicos in their field, just free to be themselves, and perfectly hospitable. Sometimes, freedom doesn't hurt, especially, if in measure.
Extremes usually lead to extremism.
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