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Since my wife and I are both Spanish speaking(her broken Spanish from growing up with bilingual grandparents and mine from growing up with bilingual friends), we are planning a vacation to one of a few destinations we have picked out. I chose Granada, Spain because after operating in Al Hamra, Iraq, I found the Al Hamra in Spain and became interested with its beauty and familiarity to Middle-Eastern architecture. With my interest in becoming SF and learning another language, my attempting to plan a vacation, and current exposure to Arab culture- I got to thinking. Have any of you ever visited an Arabic speaking nation as a tourist? If so, where did you go? Did you feel safe there? Is it just me, or does all of the Arab world seem threatening? Morocco and Tunisia are the only arabic speaking countries that I can think of that don't seem to bring to mind some type of negative event. I'm sure I'm wrong, they might be terrible places, and there might be a few other great places- maybe Dubai? I thought this would be a good conversational point and wanted to hear some educated, qualified folks speak on it. It would be a shame for someone to learn such a difficult language and not have a good chance to use it in a recreational sense.