ABSTRACT
There is, however, quite a little mixed social life in a quiet way between families and intimate groups of the upper class of Moslem women who are already unveiled, or still thinly veiled merely because of official expediency. In some other private circles there is also mixed social life, as for
instance, among some of the intelligentsia of the university circle. One of the university professors and his wife, both of whom have lived abroad, and realize the meaning o f natural social relationships, have a weekly salon in which a small congenial group enjoy a social experience which is as yet very difficult to have in Egypt. In Alexandria society is on quite a cosmopolitan basis, Moslems being only one element, not the determining social factor. But Egypt as a whole has not broken down the idea of a divided society.
