Despite all my Rage

So, it's 6:03 AM here and I am just back from dropping Patricia off at the airport.  She's headed back to the US for a few weeks, while Harley and I hold down the fort at home.  We were driven to and from the airport by our good friend/taxi driver Sami (pictured left), who reminds me of a more talkative version of this guy in that he is a stylish dresser (like most people here) and knows the score.  Cairo at 5 AM on a Friday is quiet, and driving back from the airport takes you through the Necropolis (city of the dead) which is especially quiet.  So... yalla nadardish (let's chat... the favorite Egyptian pastime).

Sami speaks fluent English, so we started chatting about where to get the best leather shoes and how the security people in the Necropolis deal with the threat of grave robbers looking to supply medical students with cadavers.  Eventually, I decided to ask him about a recent email I'd gotten from cairowarden (the State Department's alert service for Americans).  This was the subject line:

SUBJECT:  Security Message for U.S. Citizens No. 40:  Calls for “Day of Rage” on Saturday, April 6, 2013

"Day of Rage"?  Sounds pretty ominous.  My conversation with Sami went something like this:

Me: Hey, did you hear there is supposed to be a big mazahara (demonstration) tomorrow?
Sami: Yeah, I did hear that.
Me: Where did you hear about it?  What do you know?
Sami: You know, it was supposed to be today...Friday.  But they change it.  Because today we make a day, a special day for the children.  Children who have no mother and no father, something like that.
Me: Orphans.
Sami: Orfanz?
Me: Yeah.  In English we call them orphans.
Sami: Yeah, today is the day for these children.  So they change it because they respect that.

Today's headline: Day of Rage rescheduled in honor of National Orphans Day