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POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE ATTENDING AN ARAB WEDDING IN EGYPT In Egypt Moslem wedding processions bear an outward semblance to those associated with the Mecca pilgrimage. Musicians on camels, masqueraders, and silver-and-ivory palanquins are picturesque features. But all this, as far as the procession from the mosque is concerned, has the bridegroom for the central figure. The ceremony itself is comparatively private, men only being supposed to be present. The bride awaits the bridegroom at home with her mother, sister, or other female relative, and is represented at the wedding by a male proxy |