These are the last days before my long-awaited trip to Europe and Africa, partly because of my presentation in an IEEE conference. In fact, Azadeh and I were supposed to go together before her visa application was rejected. Mine, however, was accepted given that I provided them with more information, and I did. Since then, I have been waiting for over a month in order to actually get the visa.
As I am leaving in less than 10 days, it is not exaggeration if I say that I am very worried. Having said that, I don’t blame the Egyptians. The fact that there is a street at the heart of Tehran named after the person who assassinated the Egyptian president Anwar El Sadat is to my opinion enough for the Egyptians to thinks whoever holds an Iranian passport might be seriously mentally challenged and an imminent hazard to his own as well to others’ safety. And I am assuming that they forgive us for praising a terrorist.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed that I make it to Egypt. I do want to attend that the conference and I do want to see the pyramids.
