![]() I whistled the loudest, he boasted to Associated Press reporters after they married. One of them was an American lieutenant she had met while she was dancing at the Cairo Officers’ Club during the Second World War. She had indeed married more than a dozen times: I found the names of fourteen of her husbands. ![]() I was conceived in Egypt almost sixty years later, and here I was, an American woman who had never crossed her own country by car.īut the deeper I dug into Tahia Carioca’s trip, the less I found about it. ![]() When he asked her what she thought of America she had said, Liked the people, hate their government’s policies. I had read about the Egyptian dancer and actress Tahia Carioca doing a cross-country American trip once in Edward Said’s Reflections on Exile he interviewed Carioca and she told him she’d been married at least a dozen times. In the summer of 2016, my son now an adult and a sabbatical ahead of me, I decided to drive across the country alone. ![]()
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