I feel my experience was representative, because Egypt clearly consists mainly of a somewhat freethinking elite around the capital and a conservative proletaria

I feel my experience was representative, because Egypt clearly consists mainly of a somewhat freethinking elite around the capital and a conservative proletariat within the capital's poorer districts and everywhere else in the country. The elite might have the power to decide the public school curriculum, for example, and if you spent all your time within the elite it might seem like a whole world in itself. Nevertheless the religious masses still vastly outnumber them. I was told by Cairo elites that a major change in Egypt since the 1990s or so was the increasing pressure the masses were putting on the elites. For example, if you ran a business and you did not have the prayer bump on your forehead, your customers might question your religiosity and take their business elsewhere. And the stricter veiling of urban Egyptian women compared to accounts from the mid-20th-century was obvious. Again, I don’t know what might have changed in that regard since the revolution. That people are employed in tourism to the Ancient Egyptian past does not necessarily mean acceptance of the Ancient Egyptian past. There are a number of Muslim countries that derive income from tourism that is at odds with a strict understanding of Islam, but devout Muslims are willing to look the other way (and perhaps tell themselves that this is just a temporary thing until the great sharia future ushers in an equitable economy for everyone).