Halloween In Egypt

On the 31st of October, I woke up in the morning it was a normal day, or that’s what I thought it was. I had a phone call from one of my friends telling me that she will pick me up from home to go and search for a gift to one of our friends because her birthday was after three days. I went off my bed took a shower, had breakfast and was prepared to go out to search for the perfect gift. We bought a lovely gift and went to one of the famous toy stores to wrap it and get a card, before we entered the store we looked at its front window and we found that the store was having a theme, weird customs of vampires, werewolves, and spooky pumpkins. What is this, oh my god it’s Halloween! It was the first time that I recognized that we celebrate Halloween here in Egypt, to be honest it sounds weird; Halloween has nothing to do with us so why do we celebrate it! I thought about it for a minute and I recognized something more funny and weird, we celebrate Valentines, Christmas, and Thanksgiving. When I asked my friend the same question, she told me “okay I do agree with you but for the celebration of Valentine’s its normal, I think it’s a worldwide celebration but if you’re asking about the weird thing regarding Valentines you will find out that we celebrate it twice a year for some unknown reason”. I went back home still thinking about it, but unfortunately I didn’t go lucky I didn’t find a single answer to my thoughts. So I decided to forget about it and open my Facebook account that I haven’t checked for a week now and see what’s new with my friends. I had a shock, an invitation to WHAT… a Halloween house party, weird status of people saying Happy Halloween; others are attending events held in houses, clubs, restaurants, etc. OKAY this is serious; this is not Aprils fool… No we are in October, so what’s wrong, what’s going on in Egypt, I am twenty years old and as long as I lived we have never knew that Halloween existed except 5 years ago or something, right now we are celebrating it!
The happy part of this weird story that I wasn’t alone wandering, I found some people also wondering with me about the whole issue and the best one was for my cousin when he asked a question on his Facebook account “Since when did Halloween become national celebration in Egypt” and we found a lot of similar responds from people finding the issue getting on their nerves, and some shared stories about asking about customs out of curiosity and they found it worth 2000 pounds I know it sounds ridiculous but it’s true”.
Any way since people is starting to celebrate weird events we will start to celebrate the 4th of July but in the Egyptian style.