Haha yeah, your insight here on joy and envy are accurate. Most Egyptians I encountered were elated and rooting for Morocco, as Arab, Muslim, African, and feeling proud. But people told me they knew of others who were more envious and the rivalry did come up. Honestly, Egypt performed *so badly* at the last world cup that I was just so glad they didn’t get in this year because I didn’t want them to embarrass us 🙈. But yeah, the rivalry thing is real. Aside from following the matches, we also watched Trevor Noah’s scene from 4 years ago when he said “Africa won the world cup” and the French ambassador sent him a letter rebuking him? That clip was really relevant to our class, and the element of how a white French person calling dark skinned players Africans is an offense, but Trevor a Black South African calling them Africans is not an offense. The discussion in class that day was phenomenal, especially since we had also earlier discussed how much they as Egyptians identify as Africans altogether.