Name : Nur Lina Izzati Binti Ruslan No ID : 87 Group : 9 ( A ) Material : Asal Eswed film Cultural aspect : Social activity

What can be expressed by the word CULTURE? Well, let's take the word "city" for example. We know what a city is but can we tell what a city is made of? A city is made of many, many things. A city has materials like steel, cement, stones and bricks. A city has buildings, houses and streets. A city has people. The people have CULTURE. What are the cultural aspects of the city? As we learned, language, arts &sciences, thought, spirituality, social activities and interactions are five major aspects that influence a certain culture for place. Here I am honor to discuss about Egyptian culture due to several aspects as mention above. As I am one of group A which responsible either for song, films, religious, cultural acts, language or typical idioms, then I would like to opt for Asal Eswed film as my subject. Asal Eswed tries to the best of its abilities to ponder the reasons holding the country (Egypt) and their culture back. The storyline which about Egyptian American who returns to Egypt with naive enthusiasm after twenty years abroad had made me exposed to countless Egyptian culture through their lifestyle. In the midst of variety culture, the most fascinate me in showing differences between Egyptian and Malaysian is how they celebrate Eid Mubarak. Of course Malaysian having some similarities in how Egyptian celebrates this event such family visits are considered a must on the first day of the Eid, but it is exciting to know that they have the other two days to enjoy by going to parks, cinemas, theatres or the beaches. Some like to go on tours or a Nile cruise, but Sharm El Sheikh is also considered a favorite spot for spending holidays in Egypt. This completely contrasting with Malaysian as we usually congregate at hometown instead going to parks and others. The families gatherings involve cooking and eating all kinds of Egyptian food like Fata(rice, bread and meat topped with tomato sauce), but the item most associated with Eid al-Fitr are Kahk , which are cookies filled with nuts and covered with powdered sugar. Egyptians either bake it at home or buy it in the bakery. For a lot of families from working neighborhoods, the Eid celebration also means small mobile neighborhood rides, much like a neighborhood carnival. In a lot of neighborhood courtyards, kids also gather around a storyteller, a puppeteer or a magician mesmerized by Egyptian folktales or by a grownups sleight of hand. It is also customary for kids to rent decorated bikes to ride around town. This scene are completely shown in Asal Eswed when they are having picnic at Cairo Central Park near Nile river after Eid prayer .It is stated that usually they will have the salted fish which is left over for a long time until it get spoiled as special dish on that day. This manifest the differences how Egyptian enjoy their Eid with their own traditional food. We can reckon that this event full of culture aspects especially in social activity and interaction. Egypt is like black honeysweet but black. This is what the title of the recent Egyptian movie Asal Eswed(black honey in English) tries to say. Draw to a close, Egypt the country where you find anything and its contradiction for instance the warmth, familiarity, and sense of humor of Egyptian people as part of its culture.

Picnic at Cairo Centre Park for Eid Mubarak

Making Kahk , which are cookies filled with nuts and covered with powdered sugar.

kahk ( special cookies on Eid Mubarak )