A lot of times I walked past this poster. This is what I thought it said on it:
(pregnant) women are allowed to drink water during Ramadan.
Today I got the real version of the story thanks to my Arabic teacher who told me something quite different. It is an election poster of a woman called 'Noha Seyyid El Ahl' from Maadi (an area in Cairo). The cup in the right corner is a sign for illiterate people to recognize her name on the voting bill.
The course 'reading and writing Arabic' is in plan for me in 2009. So far I have been studying 'phonetic' Arabic, Egyptian slang. Also very handy when you want to get around here in Cairo.
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