Egyptian columnist Fāṭima Nāʿūt writes:

Dear reader, did you walk in the streets of Egypt yesterday and notice the vendors everywhere selling green palms, waiting to be braided? Did you park your car there to buy some palm leaves for your children so they can braid them and give them to their Christian friends, like we used to do in our childhood? If your answers are yes, then you are a pure and good-hearted person.