Warning to female tourists thinking of marrying Egyptians

Oh gosh, if you are blonde America, it just makes things worst. My ex-husband originally from Egypt married me BECAUSE I was Blonde and have American citizenship and not because he loved me. When he got to America, he worshiped me and complimented me on my looks. About 5 months into our marriage, he started used my credit cards and spent most of my savings. He started havig affairs with other blonde Americans right after he got his citizenship. I warn all blondes out there! BE CAREFUL with Egyptian men, everything an Egyptian man tells you are LIES!!!!

I don't know what to say to all these victims, I'm very shocked and saddened by the horror stories I've read here today, I'm an Egyptian and have been living here since I was born, I always knew that many men who work in the tourism industry have sex with foreign women all the time, but I never known that such terrible tragedies followed them.

It really sickens me to think about what have been done to many of the women, my condolences to all of you, I really wish the world was a better place than this, but every single place in the world has the good and the bad, I know it's quite impossible to change your view of Egyptian people after experiencing this excruciating pain from the bad batch of them, but I promise you that there are still many good people here, same as everywhere else in the world, it just happens that our most terrible batch are in the tourism industry, any honest Muslim wouldn't work in the tourism industry from the 1st place, only those who sold their souls for money work in that industry, tourism jobs in Egypt are advertised by it's workers as cheap and easy money for almost no effort, which is seen by many Egyptians are their ticket out of poverty, the moment they start getting all that easy money, they get greedy like any human being who doesn't feel the pain in making his money and start doing whatever they can to get more, they start stealing from tourists, selling them crap for excessive prices and then end up ruining their lives, especially the female tourists who are usually vulnerable to such scams due to them wanting to relax and have fun away from their stressful daily life in their country, which clouds their judgment and make them fall for it.

Please understand that not every Egyptian man is a disgusting opportunistic conman who just wants to use you, many Egyptians out there are honest men and want nothing in return but love, loyalty and support, also wanting a western nationality doesn't classify him as the "he doesn't love me, he is using me to get the out of the country free card" type, him wanting a western nationality doesn't have to mean that he is just using you to get it and doesn't that he even love you or want to be with you after he gets it, marriage is all about giving and taking, if you marry an honest man, you expect from him love, loyalty and support, he expects the same, nationality/citizenship may have been a goal of those who marry foreign women but it doesn't mean he married you just for it.

The only reason that drives many Egyptians to change their nationality to western countries is that the current Egypt is a terrible place to live in, if your family didn't leave you some money to start your life with, you are most likely to suffer for the rest of your life and live paycheck to paycheck (if you are actually able to find a job), also say goodbye to even have a chance of getting married since in our society, most parents of girls are bloodsuckers, they demand things that a simple working man could never afford even if he worked hard for years. Also in all Arab societies not just Egyptian, High/middle-class families consider jobs like a waiter or a chef (yes I said chef, who could actually make millions these days) to be demeaning, they consider it a disgrace, although this idiocy has nothing to do with Islam, just an illiterate backward culture.

Which makes marrying an independent foreign woman appeal to many Egyptian men, the foreign woman is less likely to ask for unnecessary financial requests from him unlike what most parents here do. Plus he gets the chance to live in a society where he could work any job without being judged.

My only advice to future female tourists coming to Egypt not to get involved with any1 in the tourism industry, keep your trip according to plan and schedule.

I was romantically involved with an Egytian man a few years ago. He worked in a resort in the tourist trade (selling trips) We did not continue our relationship and I married a man from my own country.

I kept contact with this man as friends and my husband also became acquainted. Each time we returned to Egypt for holidays we all always met up.

However, I am afraid to say my marriage has not lasted.

This Egyptian man has now moved to UAE to work. This is to try and better himself and to get out of the tourism trade due to the bad things that happen and are said.

He has asked me to visit the UAE as he still has feelings for me, with the chance of us rekindling our relationship and becoming husband and wife if it all works in the future. I have to admit that I do feel the same.

I would like to mention that he has never in the past or to date asked for anything from me such as money. He has also stated that we would not be able to be together physically without marriage.

The only concern I do have is that he has mentioned how his family wish him to marry Egyptian girl