Doing Business With a Cup of Tea

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The Arab country has certainly inspiring lessons for the rest of the business world through strong friendliness. Whether in some major cities such as Cairo and Alexandria or in smaller towns, the traders display such good manners that you would find yourself buying things that you didn't even budget for.

While travelling around the country as a tourist, you will often end up in conversation with someone who suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

The first question would be "where do you come from?" and before you even finish replying, something will immediately follow sounding like "welcome to Egypt; it's a good country with kind people."

That is what happened few days back when I and a few Africans from the region were for two weeks in the country to get an inside of agricultural media, courtesy of the Egyptian government.

One evening, a colleague and I had moved from Pharaohs hotel on the west bank of the Nile River just to have a look at Cairo life, when suddenly a giant young man materialized.