The ways in which we communicate – and miscommunicate – as Arab families is the crux of Egyptian Australian writer Sara El Sayed’s memoir Muddy People: A Muslim Coming of Age, which was published in Australia last year, and was recently released in the UK. It is also the inspiration behind the title Muddy People which examines the blurring of lines when it comes to navigating family rules as an Egyptian immigrant to Australia and when it comes to one’s identity as a third culture kid. Early on in her memoir, Sara relates a childhood memory from her early years in Cairo, in which she has gone t…