In this week's Daily Grind you will learn a little about the daily lives and customs of Muslims in Egypt.
Religion is more central to Egyptian culture than religion is in American culture.
Two of the most common phrases spoken in Egypt have strong religious meaning, although they are not necessarily exclusively Muslim. Praise and prayer are central features of a Muslim's daily life. As you learned in this week's FYI, five times a day faithful Muslims stop whatever they are doing, face the city of Mecca and pray on their knees. This picture shows a taxi driver who had brought someone out to the site, bowing towards the east, beside his taxi and praying the noon-time prayers. Not every Muslim practices the five daily prayers but enough do so that seeing someone praying on a street corner is not uncommon.