An Egyptian man may offer an Egyptian girl his arm, but can she take it and remain respectable? Among the Egyptian judiciary this question caused as much head-scratching last week as a recondite Koran text.
At the pilgrim port of Suez a shocked policeman had arrested a girl for walking arm in arm with a man not her husband.
She was served with a writ charging 'indecent behavior in a public thoroughfare," was ordered by a district court to pay a £2 fine. Three dignified members of an appeal bench heard the outraged policeman give evidence: it was not in keeping...
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