Laila Gohar’s night at the Egyptian Museum

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I left Cairo, the city where I was born, when I was 19 years old to go to university in the US in Florida. At the time, the world was a lot less connected, and it was still possible to go somewhere and truly know no one. Most of my friends and family were back in Egypt. The next chapter of my life was a leap into the unknown.