«Our next task was to drive over to the Agouza neighborhood (this literally means “old lady” in Arabic) to the house of Dalia, an independent Egyptian contemporary dancer who just happened to have in her possession an enormous green donkey named Homer (a variation on the Arabic word for donkey, himar).

... Dalia said that Maryam had given Homer his name, cuddled with him continuously, and wanted to take him to the Pyramids and put him on a camel. Homer became a fixture in the apartment, serving as a bean bag chair or a bed for guests, as well as the recipient of gifts, such as a necklace of plastic flowers. » Anne