I recently discovered the hardest question you can ask an Arab:  Fairuz or Umm Kulthum?  Taxi drivers in Amman typically answer this question:  “This is too hard.”  or  “You cannot ask this question.”

Fairuz and Umm Kulthum are Arab singers.  Umm Kulthum was born in Egypt in 1898 and died in 1975.  According to Wikipedia, “More […]