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My father is Egyptian and my mother is Danish; both doctors, they met in the 1990s in Copenhagen where I grew up. My story isn’t one of displacement; it’s one of choice. Every school holiday, we would visit family in Egypt (my father has six siblings). I have so many memories of driving around Downtown Cairo with my fighter-pilot cousin, or watching my…