فنّانة شاملة
Mariam once painted a parody of Ceci n’est pas une pipe, changing it to Ceci n’est pas Israel with the map of Palestine. Which surrealist artist painted the original?
René Magritte
In Morocco, Mariam and ____ saw each other's buttholes doing a Moroccan Bath. Public bathhouses like these were historically important across the Arab world, and in Ottoman times they were commonly known by this name...
Hammam / Turkish Bath
Who was Mariam's first kiss?
Adham Shaaban.
Mariam used to tally how many times she thought about Gazara in a day to keep track of her progress in getting over him. Meanwhile, millions of Arabs were tallying SMS votes in the 2000s for which reality show, which made stars like Mohamed Attia and Carmen Suleiman.
Mariam helped Amina jump into Wadi el Weshwashy. Which Sinai terrain was crossed by the Egyptian Army in October 1973, breaking through this supposedly impenetrable Israeli defensive line along the Suez Canal?
The Bar Lev Line - khat barleef
Mariam took _____ around Leeds while she was uni-hunting. Leeds is also famous as a city where which rock band built their early fanbase, before releasing Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not in 2006.
Arctic Monkeys
Mariam once had her phone stolen in a Leeds club, but spotted it in the thief’s hand, snatched it back, and escaped, before the girls turned on each other and got arrested.That’s pure drama. almost like an episode of this long-running British reality show where strangers get drunk, fight in clubs, and hook up in shared houses.
Geordie Shore
What is Mariam's favourite comfort drink?
Hot karkade with honey.
Mariam decides.
Raise your hand if Mariam has kept you waiting somewhere because she was running late... The phrase ‘running on Cairo time’ mirrors a global stereotype in a Mediterranean country, what word in their language can mean anytime in the future?
mañana
Mariam has had many obsessions, ranging from the musical Hamilton to the anime Attack on Titan. Egypt developed a long-standing obsession with emergency law, which was first enacted in 1981 after which watershed moment?
The assassination of Anwar Sadat
Mariam once slapped a girl at school for calling _____ a khawal. The word ‘khawal’ has been reclaimed in Egyptian LGBTQ activism, but historically in Egypt it referred to which group of people?
Male dancers who performed in women’s clothing during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Mariam and ____ used to get high in her bathroom and binge-watch Disjointed. Where, other than Zeina's bathroom, was the first recorded use of marijuana for recreational purposes?
China
What pet did Mariam get as a child, inspired the show Friends
A duck
Whether it’s stealing food off your plate or sleeping in your favourite hoodie, Mariam is famously a 'borrower'. The saying ‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be’ comes from which Shakespeare play?
Hamlet
When they were kids, Mariam suddenly saka3et ____ afa and then hid behind her mom so they couldn’t retaliate. In politics, that same strike-and-hide tactic is echoed in this 1956 conflict, when a surprise joint attack by Britain, France, and Israel was unleashed on Egypt for this reason...
The nationalization of the Suez Canal.
Mariam and _____ once practiced Baby It’s Cold Outside as a duet for Nihal. Similarly, one of the most iconic duets was El Helwa Di performed by Umm Kulthum and which iconic male singer?
Abdel Halim Hafez
____ had the name 'om bezaz' on Mariam's phone all throughout school... the bride herself is now extremely well endowed too. Which famous Italian fashion designer is known for designing bras that enhanced curves, famously worn by Madonna in her conical bra tour outfit?
Jean Paul Gaultier
What is Mariam's biggest fear?
Psychosis
--- Mariam decides
Mariam is such a hypochondriac that she once spent all night in A&E for a sore throat only to leave with a prescription for Strepsils. What is a main active ingredient in Strepsils?
Antiseptic, menthol, honey, lemon, local anesthetic
Mariam and _______ once played sword fights at Basata before heading to the Coloured Canyon in Sinai. Real swords clashed in Cairo’s Citadel during this 1811 massacre, when Muhammad Ali invited hundreds of which military elite to a banquet and slaughtered them to consolidate his power.
The Mamluks
Mariam saw Rihanna in concert with her mom in Ireland when she was a teenager. In 2012, Rihanna released her hit Diamonds, written by which Australian singer-songwriter, who also wrote tracks for Beyoncé and David Guetta.
Sia
Mariam, Youssef, and Karim once flooded Adel and Jasmine’s house by turning the bathroom into a soap slip ’n slide. Ancient Egyptians tracked the real annual flood of the Nile with which stone structure in Cairo, whose measurements determined tax levels.
What are 3 of Mariam's pet peeves?
Mariam once fell asleep in Gendy's shoebox flat in Belgium hugging a bottle of ketchup - because she had a migraine? The condiment’s name comes from the Hokkien Chinese word ‘kê-tsiap,’ which originally referred to this fermented sauce...
Fish Sauce
Mariam and her dad used to watch the musical Hair together, for its anti-establishment-anti-US sentiments. Hair became banned in several countries. In 1971, the Supreme Court of Germany ruled that banning Hair was wrong because?
It violated the freedom of expression act.