Moroccan Greetings

An important aspect of the culture here is the greetings. Greetings here can take up to 5 minutes and typically follow a somewhat scripted question and response time with intermittent kissing of cheeks or hands. Many times people just recite standard greetings without even waiting for the other person's response which can seem like a machine gun spat of phrases repeated over and over with the occasional variation. Whenever walking down the street it is standard to stop and talk with every person you know, giving the exact same greeting and inquiries as the last time you spoke with them. Depending on how many people you know, a simple walk to the post office can take a while! Of course, there are slight variations from place to place-- the women in my training village did a minimum of about 6-8 kisses on the cheeks for each woman they knew while reciting phrases in between kisses. Sometimes they even mixed up the kisses from 4 on one cheek to 2 on the other or the standard back and forth cheek to cheek kissing. I have no idea why, it was all very random.

Here is a typical greeting dialog:
Driss: Ah Noredine, kif dayr? Labas 3lik?
Noredine: Xuya! Labas, kulshi bixir?
Driss: Kulshi zwin, hamdullah
Noredine: Famila dyalk mzyan?
Driss: Famila dyali fi America kulshi bixir, hamdullah
Noredine: Mzyan! tbark llah 3lik
Driss: lla y-bark fik

Translation:
Driss: Ah Noredine, how are you? Are you good?
Noredine: My brother! I'm good, everything alright?
Driss: Everything is beautiful, thanks be to God
Noredine: Is your Family good?
Driss: Everything is great with my family in America, thanks be to God
Noredine: Great! May God grant you grace (goodbye God phrase)
Driss: May God grant you grace (response to God phrase)