Hashem El Garhy grew up in New York where people called him just about anything but Hashem – there’s Hasheem, there’s Hashbrown, and then there was also… Mitch. He wasn’t raised in a thriving Egyptian community, but Hashem learned to roll with the punches. Then 9/11 happened and he wound up getting uprooted from the States and tossed into life in Cairo where maybe – just maybe - people would actually call him by his name.

Spoiler alert: they didn’t.

In this bonus segment, Hashem lets us in on how he really feels about people not quite getting his name right.

In case you missed it, you can catch Hashem's full episode on The Foreign Local wherever you get your podcasts.

You can find Hashem on Instagram @⁠hashemelgarhy⁠.

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