One of my friends has a friend who came to the US to study abroad for a year -- their third year of college. We recently spent some time together over dinner, and I had the opportunity to learn a lot about how different life is for a visiting student.
The visiting student’s name is Mo El Hakim, and he is 21 years old. He lives with his mother, father and two sisters in Cairo, Egypt and, he attends University at the American University in Cairo. Mo is the oldest of three siblings and, the first person in the family to ...